Meiotic Cohesin Imposes Fitness Costs Driving Gamete Evolution
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Discovery of the day · Cell Biology
Meiotic cohesin Rec8 imposes fitness costs on fission yeast gametes favoring the evolution of parental bias in gene expression
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Biology · Cell Biology
Discovery of the day
This study demonstrates that the meiotic cohesin Rec8 creates a fitness asymmetry between fission yeast gametes, providing a mechanistic basis for the evolution of parental bias in gene expression. Researchers found that Rec8 imposes a fitness cost on half of the gametes, effectively phenocopying the inequality between male and female gametes that drives the emergence of anisogamy. For your interests in male and female fertility, this work offers a tractable model to investigate how asymmetries in gamete quality arise from molecular asymmetries established during meiosis, with implications for understanding the cellular disruptions that underlie reproductive fitness in higher organisms.
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