Heredity
New Heredity Research from University of Notre Dame Outlined
Published in World Disease Weekly, April 10th, 2012
2012 APR 10 -- According to the authors of recent research published in the Journal of Heredity, "An endogenous meiotic driver in the dengue and yellow fever vector mosquito Aedes aegypti can cause highly male-biased sex ratio distortion in crosses from suitable genetic backgrounds. We previously selected a strain that carries a strong meiotic drive gene (D) linked with the maledetermining allele (M) on chromosome 1 in A. aegypti."
"Here, we performed segregation analysis of the M-D locus among backcross (BC1) progeny from a driver male and drive- sensitive females. Assessment of sex ratios among BC2 progeny showed; similar to 5.2% recombination...
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Source: World Disease Weekly (2012-04-10)
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