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Widespread genetic incompatibility in C. elegans maintained by balancing selection.

Science (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Feb 2008

Seidel Hannah S, Rockman Matthew V, Kruglyak Leonid

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Natural selection is expected to eliminate genetic incompatibilities from interbreeding populations. We have discovered a globally distributed incompatibility in the primarily selfing species Caenorhabditis elegans that has been maintained despite its negative consequences for fitness. Embryos homozygous for a naturally occurring deletion of the zygotically acting gene zeel-1 arrest if their sperm parent carries...

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PMID: 18187622
DOI: 10.1126/science.1151107
PMCID: PMC2421010

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