Whole-chromosome hitchhiking driven by a male-killing endosymbiont
S. H. Martin, K. S. Singh, I. J. Gordon, K. S. Omufwoko, S. Collins, I. A. Warren, H. Munby, O. Brattström, W. Traut, D. J. Martins, D. A. S. Smith, C. D. Jiggins, C. Bass, R. H. ffrench-Constant
The paper investigates the origin and spread of a neo-W chromosome in Danaus chrysippus, showing it hitchhiked with a male-killing Spiroplasma endosymbiont due to suppressed recombination.
bioRxiv · Nov 13, 2019Evolutionary Biology