A5031951731- Insect Resistance and Genetics
- Research on scale insects
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
University of Edinburgh
2021-2025
Abstract Meiosis is generally a fair process: each chromosome has 50% chance of being included into gamete. However, meiosis can become aberrant with some chromosomes having higher making it gametes than others. Yet, why and how such systems evolve remains unclear. Here, we study the unusual reproductive genetics mealybugs, where only maternal-origin are in during male meiosis, while paternal eliminated. One species—Pseudococcus viburni—has segregating B that drives by escaping genome...
Abstract Meiosis, the key process underlying sexual reproduction, is generally a fair process: each chromosome has 50% chance of being included into gamete. However in some organisms meiosis become highly aberrant with chromosomes having higher making it gametes than others. Yet why and how such systems evolve remains unclear. Here we study unusual reproductive genetics mealybugs, which only maternal-origin are during male meiosis, while paternally-derived degrade. This “whole genome meiotic...