Evolutionary Genetic Stability of Mendelian Segregation and the Role of Free Recombination in the Chromosomal System
- 1 March 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 125 (3), 412-420
- https://doi.org/10.1086/284350
Abstract
The Mendelian system of segregation is stably maintained in a diploid random-mating population only when the genome is divided into chromosomes, with free recombination among most loci. Meiotic drive at a given locus, enhanced by linked modifiers, is expected to be controlled by unlinked modifiers which are always selected to reduce the intensity of meiotic drive.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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