ANIMALS VS PLANTS. “Models point to a role of sex differences in selection during the haploid phase. Whilst a viable explanation in plants, there is little empirical support for this in animals, in which meiosis in females is only completed after fertilisation, so there is no true haploid phase, and the small number of expressed genes in sperm.”
http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/04/28/050831.full.pdf
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022