A two-locus model of speciation.

Abstract excerpt

Speciation is considered as the evolution of partial or complete cross-incompatibility between the carriers of genes (at a locus called "object locus") that distinguish the prospective species populations. The mating relations at the object locus are modified by the alleles at a second mating modifier locus. Based on a widely applicable concept of fitness and mating preference, it is shown that heterozygote...

Topics

• Adaptation, Physiological
• Animals
• Biological Evolution
• Copulation
• Genotype
• Mathematics
• Models, Genetic