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Crosses between populations with and without B-chromosomes were made, and backcrossed to the non B parent for two generations. No polygenic differences in male or female meiotic transmission were found, but a modifier of meiotic drive segregated in the experiment, drastically reducing female transmission rate. We tentatively interpret this as evidence of a coevolutionary race between the B-chromosome and the A genome.
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Shaw, M., Hewitt, G. The genetic control of meiotic drive acting on the B-chromosome of Myrmeleotettix maculatus (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Heredity 54, 187–194 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1985.25
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