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Reinforcement and divergence under assortative mating.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Aug 2000
Kirkpatrick M
Abstract excerpt
Traits that cause assortative mating such as the flowering time in plants and body size in animals can produce reproductive isolation between hybridizing populations. Can selection against unfit hybrids cause two populations to diverge in their mean values for these kinds of traits? Here I present a haploid analytical model of one population that receives gene flow from another. The partial pre-zygotic isolation...
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