Claim · model-written summary
Simulations suggested knobs may be deleterious without Ab10.
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e0“Simulations were used to illustrate the dynamics of this meiotic drive model and suggest knobs might be deleterious in the absence of Ab10.”
t0“Maize”
Title
Meiotic Drive of Chromosomal Knobs Reshaped the Maize Genome
Edward S Buckler; Tara L Phelps-Durr; Carlyn S Keith Buckler; et al. Genetics 1999. doi:10.1093/genetics/153.1.415
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Knob size, frequency and chromosome position agreed with the meiotic drive hypothesis.
- Observation Knob positions were incompatible with neutral or slightly deleterious repetitive DNA.
- Mechanism Environmental factors may influence knob evolution.
- Mechanism Transposition may influence knob evolution.
- Mechanism Meiotic drive and linkage may have reshaped maize genetic diversity in response to Ab10.
- Mechanism Authors propose meiotic drive can cause rapid genome structural and diversity change.