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From clonal to sexual hybrids: genetic recombination via triploids in all-hybrid populations of water frogs.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jul 2009
Christiansen Ditte G, Reyer Heinz-Ulrich
Abstract excerpt
Speciation via interspecific hybrids is very rare in animals, as compared to plants. Whereas most plants overcome the problem of meiosis between different chromosome sets by tetraploidization, animal hybrids often escape hybrid sterility by clonal reproduction. This comes at the expense of genetic diversity and the ability to purge deleterious mutations. However, here we show that all-hybrid populations of...
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