Manus M. Patten

The paper models a remote-control meiotic drive mechanism where an autosomal gene causes a sex chromosome to drive without itself driving, showing potential applications in pest management.

This paper develops a kin-selection model to explore how chimerism affects social behavior and relatedness patterns in structured populations, finding increased altruism and internal conflicts due to somatic and germline chimerism.

The paper introduces metrics to quantify internal conflicts within organisms and applies them to genomic imprinting and sex ratio distortion.