{"id":212295,"date":"2025-04-24T06:08:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T11:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/brinkmanship-between-rival-genes-may-determine-survival-of-unborn-mammals"},"modified":"2025-04-24T06:08:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T11:08:01","slug":"brinkmanship-between-rival-genes-may-determine-survival-of-unborn-mammals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/brinkmanship-between-rival-genes-may-determine-survival-of-unborn-mammals","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Brinkmanship\u2019 between rival genes may determine survival of unborn mammals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brinkmanship-between-rival-genes-may-determine-survival-of-unborn-mammals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study has shown that a dangerous game of \u201cbrinkmanship\u201d between rival genes in mammals could help explain why many fertilized eggs don\u2019t result in a new life.<\/p>\n<p>Within the genome, genes can be in conflict, where opposing chromosomes act in their own evolutionary interest. Although this tussle between male and female genes is commonly understood, what determines the winner\u2014or if there even is one\u2014has long proven elusive.<\/p>\n<p>Biologists from the University of Bristol and University of Exeter have demonstrated that a dangerous game of \u201cbrinkmanship\u201d could provide the answer, where the stakes are increasingly raised resulting in either the boldest being triumphant or mutual self-destruction. The paper is <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rspb.2025.0488\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study has shown that a dangerous game of \u201cbrinkmanship\u201d between rival genes in mammals could help explain why many fertilized eggs don\u2019t result in a new life. Within the genome, genes can be in conflict, where opposing chromosomes act in their own evolutionary interest. Although this tussle between male and female genes is commonly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}