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Speciation and reduced hybrid female fertility in house mice.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Sept 2015
Suzuki Taichi A, Nachman Michael W
Abstract excerpt
In mammals, intrinsic postzygotic isolation has been well studied in males but has been less studied in females, despite the fact that female gametogenesis and pregnancy provide arenas for hybrid sterility or inviability that are absent in males. Here, we asked whether inviability or sterility is observed in female hybrids of Mus musculus domesticus and M. m. musculus, taxa which hybridize in nature and for which...
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