The ecology and evolutionary dynamics of meiotic drive

AK Lindholm, KA Dyer, RC Firman, L Fishman… - Trends in ecology & …, 2016 - cell.com
Meiotic drivers are genetic variants that selfishly manipulate the production of gametes to
increase their own rate of transmission, often to the detriment of the rest of the genome and …

Haldane's rule: genetic bases and their empirical support

LF Delph, JP Demuth - Journal of Heredity, 2016 - academic.oup.com
There are few patterns in evolution that are as rigidly held as Haldane's rule (HR), which
states,“When in the first generation between hybrids between 2 species, 1 sex is absent …

Impacts of sex ratio meiotic drive on genome structure and function in a stalk-eyed fly

JA Reinhardt, RH Baker, AV Zimin… - Genome Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Stalk-eyed flies in the genus Teleopsis carry selfish genetic elements that induce sex ratio
(SR) meiotic drive and impact the fitness of male and female carriers. Here, we assemble …

Meiotic Drive and Speciation

JB Searle… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Meiotic drive is the biased transmission of alleles from heterozygotes, contrary to Mendel's
laws, and reflects intragenomic conflict rather than organism-level Darwinian selection …

Selfish X chromosomes and speciation

MM Patten - Molecular ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In two papers published at about the same time almost thirty years ago, Frank (Evolution, 45,
1991a, 262) and Hurst and Pomiankowski (Genetics, 128, 1991, 841) independently …

The contribution of sex chromosome conflict to disrupted spermatogenesis in hybrid house mice

EEK Kopania, EM Watson, CC Rathje, BM Skinner… - Genetics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Incompatibilities on the sex chromosomes are important in the evolution of hybrid male
sterility, but the evolutionary forces underlying this phenomenon are unclear. House mice …

Contrasting patterns of X‐chromosome divergence underlie multiple sex‐ratio polymorphisms in stalk‐eyed flies

KA Paczolt, JA Reinhardt… - Journal of Evolutionary …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Sex‐linked segregation distorters cause offspring sex ratios to differ from equality. Theory
predicts that such selfish alleles may either go to fixation and cause extinction, reach a …

Do sex-linked male meiotic drivers contribute to intrinsic hybrid incompatibilities? Recent empirical studies from flies and rodents

J Kitano, K Yoshida - Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 2023 - Elsevier
Intrinsic hybrid incompatibility is one of the important isolating barriers between species. In
organisms with sex chromosomes, intrinsic hybrid incompatibility often follows two rules …

Spermatogenesis drives rapid gene creation and masculinization of the X chromosome in stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae)

RH Baker, A Narechania, R DeSalle… - Genome Biology and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Throughout their evolutionary history, genomes acquire new genetic material that facilitates
phenotypic innovation and diversification. Developmental processes associated with …

A selfish genetic element and its suppressor causes gross damage to testes in a fly

S Lyth, A Manser, TAR Price, GDD Hurst, RL Verspoor - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Selfish genetic elements (SGEs), specifically X-chromosome meiotic drive (XCMD), create
huge conflicts within a host's genome and can have profound effects on fertility. Suppressors …