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SUBMITTER: Hitchcock TJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7575522 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hitchcock Thomas J TJ Gardner Andy A
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20200812 1932
Females and males may face different selection pressures. Accordingly, alleles that confer a benefit for one sex often incur a cost for the other. Classic evolutionary theory holds that the X chromosome, whose sex-biased transmission sees it spending more time in females, should value females more than males, whereas autosomes, whose transmission is unbiased, should value both sexes equally. However, recent mathematical and empirical studies indicate that male-beneficial alleles may be more favo ...[more]