Two analyses of long-read sequencing show that the Winters sex-ratio distorter of Drosophila has been a part of a recent gene family expansion, coupled to the appearance of suppressors, in a genomic arms race driven by satellite DNA.
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Vogan, A.A. A flurry of sex-ratio distorters. Nat Ecol Evol 5, 1574–1575 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01601-1
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