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ArticleGenetica2018

Increase in viability due to the accumulation of X chromosome mutations in Drosophila melanogaster males.

Ronny C Woodruff, Michael A Balinski

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Article in Genetica, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Ronny C WoodruffDepartment of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 43403, USA. rwoodru@bgsu.edu.
Michael A BalinskiDepartment of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 43403, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To increase our understanding of the role of new X-chromosome mutations in adaptive evolution, single-X Drosophila melanogaster males were mated with attached-X chromosome females, allowing the male X chromosome to accumulate mutations over 28 generations. Contrary to our hypothesis that male viability would decrease over time, due to the accumulation and expression of X-linked recessive deleterious mutations in hemizygous males, viability significantly increased. This increase may be attributed to germinal selection and to new X-linked beneficial or compensatory mutations, possibly supporting the faster-X hypothesis.

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Genetic FitnessHemizygoteMutation AccumulationAnimalsChromosomes, InsectDrosophila melanogasterEvolution, MolecularFemaleMaleSelection, GeneticX ChromosomeBeneficial mutationsDeleterious mutationsDrosophila melanogaster, Faster-X hypothesisGerminal selectionMutation accumulationX chromosome

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