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Transgenic Drosophila simulans strains prove the identity of the speciation gene Lethal hybrid rescue.
Genes & genetic systems - 1 Oct 2009
Prigent Stéphane R, Matsubayashi Hiroshi, Yamamoto Masa-Toshi
Abstract excerpt
Speciation genes are responsible for genetic incompatibilities in hybrids of incipient species and therefore participate in reproductive isolation leading to complete speciation. Hybrid males between Drosophila melanogaster females and D. simulans males die at late larval or prepupal stages due to a failure in chromosome condensation during mitosis. However a mutant male of D. simulans, named Lethal hybrid rescue...
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