Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Intralocus conflicts associated with a supergene

  • Lina M. Giraldo-Deck,
  • Jasmine L. Loveland,
  • Wolfgang Goymann,
  • Barbara Tschirren,
  • Terry Burke,
  • Bart Kempenaers,
  • David B. Lank,
  • Clemens Küpper

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29033-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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‘A supergene that underlies variation in male mating phenotypes has consequences for female reproduction. Here, the authors use evolutionary models to show that the rarest variant of this supergene is maintained by disproportionally high male reproductive success.’