A meiotic drive element in the maize pathogen Fusarium verticillioides is located within a 102-kb region of chromosome V.
Jay Pyle, Tejas Patel, Brianna Merril, Chabu Nsokoshi, Morgan McCall, Robert H Proctor, Daren Brown, Thomas M Hammond
This study identifies a 102-kb region on chromosome V of Fusarium verticillioides as the Sk locus, containing an additional gene SKL1 that may be involved in meiotic drive and spore killing.
bioRxiv · Mar 27, 2016Genetics