On 6 April, Ted Morrow will give a talk entitled “Sexually antagonistic genes in flies and humans”. Sexually antagonistic selection occurs when natural selection on traits shared by males and females operates opposite directions in the two sexes. Sexually antagonistic genetic variation is apparently common and taxonomically widespread and yet very few specific genetic loci have been identified. The talk will give an overview of experimental work that has been carried out in the Morrow lab to find these genes in the fruit fly model as well as ask why no sexually antagonistic genes have been reported from humans.
The seminar starts at 13.15 and will be streamed live over Zoom. Contact Olle Calles (olle.calles@kau.se) to receive the zoom link to this seminar.