01361nas a2200157   4500008004100000020001400041245010100055210006900156260000900225300001200234490000700246520084800253100002201101700002401123856005601147       2006                        eng d  a0018-067X00aTransmission ratio distortion in the human body louse, Pediculus humanus (Insecta: Phthiraptera)0 aTransmission ratio distortion in the human body louse Pediculus   c2006  a63 - 680 v963 aWe studied inheritance at three microsatellite loci in eight F(1) and two F(2) families of the body (clothes) louse of humans, Pediculus humanus. The alleles of heterozygous female-parents were always inherited in a Mendelian fashion in these families. Alleles from heterozygous male-parents, however, were inherited in two different ways: (i) in a Mendelian fashion and (ii) in a non-Mendelian fashion, where males passed to their offspring only one of their two alleles, that is, 100% nonrandom transmission. In male body lice, where there was non-Mendelian inheritance, the paternally inherited set of alleles was eliminated. We interpret this pattern of inheritance as evidence for extreme transmission ratio distortion of paternal alleles in this species.Heredity advance online publication, 21 September 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800760.1 aMcMeniman, C., J.1 aBarker, Stephen, C.  uhttp://www.phthiraptera.info/Publications/44614.pdf