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Selfish genetic elements and sexual selection: their impact on male fertility.
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- A selfish supergene causes meiotic drive through both sexes inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- The suppression of a selfish genetic element increases a male's mating success in a fly.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Selfish migrants: How a meiotic driver is selected to increase dispersal.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2022Article
- Endosymbionts moderate constrained sex allocation in a haplodiploid thrips species in a temperature-sensitive way.Heredity · 2022Article
- Molecular Mechanisms and Evolutionary Consequences of Spore Killers in Ascomycetes.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2021Review
- Selfish genetic elements and male fertility.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
- Polyandry blocks gene drive in a wild house mouse population.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Ancient gene drives: an evolutionary paradox.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Fitness consequences of a non-recombiningProceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- An X-linked meiotic drive allele has strong, recessive fitness costs in femaleProceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Meiotic drive reduces egg-to-adult viability in stalk-eyed flies.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Controlling invasive rodents via synthetic gene drive and the role of polyandry.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Acculturation drives the evolution of intergroup conflict.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Fertility Costs of Meiotic Drivers.Current biology : CB · 2019Review
- Ejaculate sperm number compensation in stalk-eyed flies carrying a selfish meiotic drive element.Heredity · 2019Article
- Unexpected patterns of segregation distortion at a selfish supergene in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta.BMC genetics · 2018Article
- Carrying a selfish genetic element predicts increased migration propensity in free-living wild house mice.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Genetic Villains: Killer Meiotic Drivers.Trends in genetics : TIG · 2018Review
- Sexual selection modulates genetic conflicts and patterns of genomic imprinting.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2017Article
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Abstract
Females of many species mate with more than one male (polyandry), yet the adaptive significance of polyandry is poorly understood. One hypothesis to explain the widespread occurrence of multiple mating is that it may allow females to utilize post-copulatory mechanisms to reduce the risk of fertilizing their eggs with sperm from incompatible males. Selfish genetic elements (SGEs) are ubiquitous in eukaryotes, frequent sources of reproductive incompatibilities, and associated with fitness costs. However, their impact on sexual selection is largely unexplored. In this review we examine the link between SGEs, male fertility and sperm competitive ability. We show there is widespread evidence that SGEs are associated with reduced fertility in both animals and plants, and present some recent data showing that males carrying SGEs have reduced paternity in sperm competition. We also discuss possible reasons why male gametes are particularly vulnerable to the selfish actions of SGEs. The widespread reduction in male fertility caused by SGEs implies polyandry may be a successful female strategy to bias paternity against SGE-carrying males.
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