The genetics of sex ratio distortion by cytoplasmic infection under maternal and contagious transmission: an epidemiological study.
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1978-12
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Nuclear and cytoplasmic determinants jointly influence the sex ratio in several organisms. A mathematical model of a maternally inherited extra-chromosomal agent that affects the fitness of its carriers and distorts the sex ratio in their broods is analyzed. The agent is transmitted through the cytoplasm from mother to daughter, or it may pass contagiously among females of the same generation. It is shown that under natural selection the deviation between the population sex ratio and Fisher's optimum value evolves to a minimum. © 1978.
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Uyenoyama, MK, and MW Feldman (1978). The genetics of sex ratio distortion by cytoplasmic infection under maternal and contagious transmission: an epidemiological study. Theoretical population biology, 14(3). pp. 471–497. 10.1016/0040-5809(78)90019-9 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/25957.
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Marcy K. Uyenoyama
Marcy Uyenoyama studies mechanisms of evolutionary change at the molecular and population levels. Among the questions under study include the prediction and detection of the effects of natural selection on genomic structure. A major area of research addresses the development of maximum-likelihood and Bayesian methods for inferring evolutionary processes from the pattern of molecular variation. Evolutionary processes currently under study include characterization of population structure across genomes.
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