Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Convergent evolution of complex genomic rearrangements in two fungal meiotic drive elements

  • Jesper Svedberg,
  • Sara Hosseini,
  • Jun Chen,
  • Aaron A. Vogan,
  • Iva Mozgova,
  • Lars Hennig,
  • Pennapa Manitchotpisit,
  • Anna Abusharekh,
  • Thomas M. Hammond,
  • Martin Lascoux,
  • Hanna Johannesson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06562-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Meiotic drive elements are selfish genetic elements that mediate a skew in their sexual transmission from parent to offspring. Here, the authors sequence and analyze large and complex genomic regions associated with meiotic drive elements in the fungus Neurospora intermedia.