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The genetics of hybrid incompatibilities.
Annual review of genetics - 1 Jan 2011
Maheshwari Shamoni, Barbash Daniel A
Abstract excerpt
Incompatibilities in interspecific hybrids, such as sterility and lethality, are widely observed causes of reproductive isolation and thus contribute to speciation. Because hybrid incompatibilities are caused by divergence in each of the hybridizing species, they also reveal genomic changes occurring on short evolutionary time scales that have functional consequences. These changes include divergence in...
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