Gene Wars: A selfish gene that makes mice migrate
Channel: Jan-Niklas Runge
Date: 2018-10-03

This study was made possible by the hard work of many people over many years under the lead of Barbara König of the University of Zurich.

This video abstract presents in common language the paper "Carrying a selfish genetic element predicts increased migration propensity in free-living wild house mouse" by Jan-Niklas Runge & Anna K. Lindholm, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. The paper can be found at https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1333 

About me: http://janniklasrunge.de

Research group of Anna K. Lindholm: https://www.ieu.uzh.ch/en/research/behaviour/behaviour.html
Barbara König, who leads the field-study project: https://www.ieu.uzh.ch/en/staff/member/koenig_barbara.html

Further reading:

For an overview of genetic conflicts: Burt A, Trivers RL. 2006 Genes in Conflict. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press

More information on sperm competitiveness in supergene-carrying house mice: 

Sutter A, Lindholm AK. 2015 Detrimental effects of an autosomal selfish genetic element on sperm competitiveness in house mice. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282, 20150974. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0974

Manser A, Lindholm AK, König B, Bagheri HC. 2011 Polyandry and the decrease of a selfish genetic element in a wild house mouse population. Evolution 65, 2435–2447. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01336.x

The lethality of carrying the supergene twice: Safronova LD. 2009 Embryonal effects of t-haplotypes in mice. Russian Journal of Developmental Biology 40, 23–30. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062360409010032