ReviewCurrent opinion in genetics & development2023
Proliferation and dissemination of killer meiotic drive loci.
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- sept-1/zina-1 is an ancient toxin-antidote system in Caenorhabditis elegans.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- The evolutionary genomics of meiotic drive.Molecular biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Oocyte Kinetochores at the Nexus of Meiotic Drive and Segregation Fidelity.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
- Evolutionary persistence and divergence of thebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Recurrent expansion and rapid evolution of the Drosophilid RNAi pathway in testis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Functional constraints of wtf killer meiotic drivers.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- Functional constraints ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Identification of novel genes responsible for a pollen killer present in local natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- PIWI-interacting RNAs: who, what, when, where, why, and how.The EMBO journal · 2024Article
- Evolutionary Modes of wtf Meiotic Driver Genes in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.Genome biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Mechanisms of Germline Stem Cell Competition across Species.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Cleave and Rescue gamete killers create conditions for gene drive in plants.Nature plants · 2024Article
- Cleave and Rescue gamete killers create conditions for gene drive in plants.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Out with the old, in with the new: Meiotic driving of sex chromosome evolution.Seminars in cell & developmental biologyReview
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Abstract
Killer meiotic drive elements are selfish genetic entities that manipulate the sexual cycle to promote their own inheritance via destructive means. Two broad classes are sperm killers, typical of animals and plants, and spore killers, which are present in ascomycete fungi. Killer meiotic drive systems operate via toxins that destroy or disable meiotic products bearing the alternative allele. To avoid suicidal autotargeting, cells that bear these selfish elements must either lack the toxin target, or express an antidote. Historically, these systems were presumed to require large nonrecombining haplotypes to link multiple functional interacting loci. However, recent advances on fungal spore killers reveal that numerous systems are enacted by single genes, and similar molecular genetic studies in Drosophila pinpoint individual loci that distort gamete sex. Notably, many meiotic drivers duplicate readily, forming gene families that can have complex interactions within and between species, and providing substrates for their rapid functional diversification. Here, we summarize the known families of meiotic drivers in fungi and fruit flies, and highlight shared principles about their evolution and proliferation that promote the spread of these noxious genes.
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