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Reinforcement and the genetics of nonrandom mating.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Feb 2000
Servedio M R
Abstract excerpt
The occurrence of reinforcement is compared when premating isolation is caused by the spread of a gene causing females to prefer to mate with males carrying a population-specific trait (a "preference" model) and by a gene that causes females to prefer to mate with males that share their own trait phenotype (an "assortative mating" model). Both two-island models, which have symmetric gene flow, and...
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