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Genetic conflict outweighs heterogametic incompatibility in the mouse hybrid zone?
BMC evolutionary biology - 3 Oct 2008
Macholán Milos, Baird Stuart J E, Munclinger Pavel, Dufková Petra, Bímová Barbora, Piálek Jaroslav
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BACKGROUND: The Mus musculus musculus/M. m. domesticus contact zone in Europe is characterised by sharp frequency discontinuities for sex chromosome markers at the centre of wider clines in allozyme frequencies. RESULTS: We identify a triangular area (approximately 330 km2) where the musculus Y chromosome introgresses across this front for up to 22 km into domesticus territory. Introgression of the Y chromosome...
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