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Dynamics of hybrid incompatibility in gene networks in a constant environment.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Feb 2009
Palmer Michael E, Feldman Marcus W
Abstract excerpt
After an ancestral population splits into two allopatric populations, different mutations may fix in each. When pairs of mutations are brought together in a hybrid offspring, epistasis may cause reduced fitness. Such pairs are known as Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller (BDM) incompatibilities. A well-known model of BDM incompatibility due to Orr suggests that the fitness load on hybrids should initially accelerate, and...
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