Parental antagonism, relatedness asymmetries, and genomic imprinting
1997/11/22 by David Haig · 269 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Allele #Antagonism #Biology #Epigenetics and DNA Methylation #Evolutionary biology #Gene #Genetic Associations and Epidemiology #Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting #Genetics #Genomic imprinting #Imprinting (psychology)
paper · doi:10.1098/rspb.1997.0230
published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 264(1388), 1657-1662 (Royal Society)
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Abstract
The theory of inclusive fitness can be modified to consider separate coefficients of relatedness for an individual's maternal and paternal alleles. A gene is said to have parentally antagonistic effects if it has an inclusive fitness benefit when maternally derived, but an inclusive fitness cost when paternally derived (or vice versa). Parental antagonism favours the evolution of alleles that are expressed only when maternally derived or only when paternally derived (genomic imprinting).
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