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Segregation distortion causes large-scale differences between male and female genomes in hybrid ants.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 20 Apr 2010
Kulmuni Jonna, Seifert Bernhard, Pamilo Pekka
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Hybridization in isolated populations can lead either to hybrid breakdown and extinction or in some cases to speciation. The basis of hybrid breakdown lies in genetic incompatibilities between diverged genomes. In social Hymenoptera, the consequences of hybridization can differ from those in other animals because of haplodiploidy and sociality. Selection pressures differ between sexes because males are haploid...
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