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​Genetics and Evolution of Unusual Sex              

We are a research group at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology
at the University of Edinburgh

 Research​

Institute of Evolutionary Biology

Our lab studies the evolution of unusual inheritance in animals. ​Mendelian inheritance is the standard inheritance model in evolutionary biology, even though there is growing evidence of frequent violations of it in nature. These distortions of segregation  play out on various levels, fueled by genomic conflicts. For example selfish genes and chromosomes can boost their transmission probability via meiotic drive, or whole paternal haplotypes can be eliminated in paternal genome elimination. Even more familiar systems such as asexuality or Y chromosome inheritance are in fact extreme cases of segregation distortion; in other words, non-mendelian inheritance effects to certain extent probably all genetics systems in nature. In spite of this ubiquity, the evolutionary and genomic consequences are poorly understood and mostly focused on individual cases. In our laboratory, we research non-Mendelian inheritance  in species with unusual reproduction modes using genetic, cytogenetic, epigenetic, and genomic approaches.
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Our lab is based at the Institute for evolutionary biology at the University of Edinburgh. 

Institute of Evolutionary Biology
The University of Edinburgh
Ashworth Laboratories
Charlotte Auerbach Road
Edinburgh EH9 3FL, UK
​https://www.ed.ac.uk/biology/evolutionary-biology
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