How Supergenes Fuel Evolution Despite Harmful Mutations | Quanta Magazine
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Sal@mander.xyz 1 year ago
I like that observation.
I was superficially familiar with the concept of a 'selfish gene', but I did not know of any specific examples. The segregation distortion (SD) gene in Drosophila is very interesting.