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Reinforcement selection acting on the European house mouse hybrid zone.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2011
Bímová Barbora Vošlajerová, Macholán Miloš, Baird Stuart J E, Munclinger Pavel, Dufková Petra, Laukaitis Christina M, Karn Robert C, Luzynski Kenneth, Tucker Priscilla K, Piálek Jaroslav
Abstract excerpt
Behavioural isolation may lead to complete speciation when partial postzygotic isolation acts in the presence of divergent-specific mate-recognition systems. These conditions exist where Mus musculus musculus and M. m. domesticus come into contact and hybridize. We studied two mate-recognition signal systems, based on urinary and salivary proteins, across a Central European portion of the mouse hybrid zone....
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