Extensive Recombination Suppression and Epistatic Selection Causes Chromosome-Wide Differentiation of a Selfish Sex Chromosome in<i>Drosophila pseudoobscura</i>
Zachary L. Fuller, Spencer Koury, Christopher J. Leonard, Randee E. Young, Kobe Ikegami, Jonathan Westlake, Stephen Richards, Stephen W. Schaeffer, Nitin Phadnis
Abstract
Abstract The Drosophila pseudoobscura Sex-Ratio (SR) chromosome was one of the first-discovered segregation distorter chromosomes. Despite being a historically significant and well-studied segregation distortion system, the mechanisms allowing for the long-term....
Topics & Concepts
Drosophila pseudoobscuraBiologyGeneticsEpistasisChromosomeMeiotic driveDrosophila (subgenus)Selection (genetic algorithm)RecombinationEvolutionary biologyGeneComputer scienceArtificial intelligencePlant Reproductive BiologyPlant Virus Research StudiesPlant pathogens and resistance mechanisms