A Maternal–Offspring Coadaptation Theory for the Evolution of Genomic Imprinting

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Jason B Wolf ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Jason@evolutionarygenetics.org

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Reinmar Hager

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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About the Authors

Jason B Wolf

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Jason@evolutionarygenetics.org

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Reinmar Hager

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

JBW and RH conceived the idea for the model. JW derived the model. JBW and RH wrote the paper.

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Natural selection
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Evolutionary genetics
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Quantitative trait loci
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Genome evolution
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Gene expression
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Linkage disequilibrium
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