Chromosomal regions with meiotic drivers exhibit biased transmission (> 50 %) over their competing homologous chromosomal region. These regions often have two prominent genetic features: suppressed meiotic crossing over and rapidly evolving multicopy gene families. Heteromorphic sex chromosomes (e.g., XY) often share these two genetic features with chromosomal regions exhibiting meiotic drive. Here, we discuss parallels between meiotic drive and sex chromosome evolution, how the divergence of heteromorphic sex chromosomes can be influenced by meiotic drive, experimental approaches to study meiotic drive on sex chromosomes, and meiotic drive in traditional and non-traditional model organisms with high-quality genome assemblies. The newly available diversity of high-quality sex chromosome sequences allows us to revisit conventional models of sex chromosome evolution through the lens of meiotic drive.
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