An empirical test of the meiotic drive models of hybrid sterility: sex-ratio data from hybrids between Drosophila simulans and Drosophila sechellia.

doi:10.1093/genetics/130.3.507

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An empirical test of the meiotic drive models of hybrid sterility: sex-ratio data from hybrids between Drosophila simulans and Drosophila sechellia.

Genetics - 1 Mar 1992

Johnson N A, Wu C I

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Recently, there has been much discussion regarding the hypothesis that divergence of meiotic drive systems in isolated populations can generate the patterns of reproductive isolation observed in animal hybridizations. One prediction from this hypothesis is that the sex ratio of hybrids with heter...

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Animals
Crosses, Genetic
Drosophila
Female
Genetic Linkage
Hybridization, Genetic
Male
Meiosis
Phenotype
Reproduction
Sex Ratio
X Chromosome
Y Chromosome

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