Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Intragenomic Conflict over Bet-Hedging
J. F. Wilkins, T. Bhattacharya
This paper models evolutionary bet-hedging in imprinted gene systems, showing that paternally inherited alleles reduce reproductive variance while maternally inherited alleles increase it, linking to risk-averse and risk-tolerant behaviors respectively.
DOI 10.1098/rstb.2018.0142