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Meiotic Y-drive. An endonuclease (blue block), placed onto the mosquito Y-chromosome, is expressed during male meiosis to cut a multicopy target sequence on the X-chromosome. The shredding of the X-chromosome favors the unaffected Y-carrying sperm and results in the production of a male-biased progeny.
