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SUBMITTER: Gardner A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4240462 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ecology letters 20141017 12
Genome elimination - whereby an individual discards chromosomes inherited from one parent, and transmits only those inherited from the other parent - is found across thousands of animal species. It is more common in association with inbreeding, under male heterogamety, in males, and in the form of paternal genome elimination. However, the reasons for this broad pattern remain unclear. We develop a mathematical model to determine how degree of inbreeding, sex determination, genomic location, patt ...[more]