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eLife Assessment: The potential of inversions to accumulate balanced sexual antagonism is supported by simulations and Drosophila experiments

Year: 2025

Type: peer-review

Abstract: Sexually antagonistic pleiotropy involving frequency-dependent traits like mating display maintains linkage blocks like inversions as balanced polymorphisms in simulation, and may explain common inversion polymorphisms maintained at intermediate frequencies.

Source: eLife

DOI: 10.7554/elife.93338.4.sa0

Author: Detlef Weigel

Institution: Max Planck Institute for Biology

Language: English

Topic: Evolution and Genetic Dynamics

Subfield: Genetics

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,500

OpenAlex ID: W4409507018

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