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Recombination and speciation.
Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 2005
Butlin Roger K
Abstract excerpt
Speciation can be viewed as the evolution of restrictions on the freedom of genetic recombination: new combinations of alleles can be generated within species, but alleles from different species cannot be brought together. Recently, there has been increasing realization that the role of chromosomal rearrangements in speciation might be primarily a result of their influence on recombination. I argue that ideas...
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