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SUBMITTER: Bradshaw SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9709577 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bradshaw Sasha L SL Meade Lara L Tarlton-Weatherall Jessica J Pomiankowski Andrew A
Biology letters 20221130 11
The sex ratio (SR) X-linked meiotic drive system in stalk-eyed flies destroys Y-bearing sperm. Unlike other SR systems, drive males do not suffer fertility loss. They have greatly enlarged testes which compensate for gamete killing. We predicted that enlarged testes arise from extended development with resources re-allocated from the accessory glands, as these tend to be smaller in drive males. To test this, we tracked the growth of the testes and accessory glands of wild-type and drive males ov ...[more]