Mutation accumulation opposes polymorphism: supergenes and the curious case of balanced lethals
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DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0199
Abstract: Supergenes offer spectacular examples of long-term balancing selection in nature, but their origin and maintenance remain a mystery. Reduced recombination between arrangements, a critical aspect of many supergenes, protects adaptive multi-trait phenotypes but can lead… read more here.
Keywords: balanced lethal; polymorphism; lethal systems; mutation ... See more keywords