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Hybrid Dysgenesis in Drosophila simulans Associated with a Rapid Invasion of the P-Element.
PLoS genetics - 1 Mar 2016
Hill Tom, Schlötterer Christian, Betancourt Andrea J
Abstract excerpt
In a classic example of the invasion of a species by a selfish genetic element, the P-element was horizontally transferred from a distantly related species into Drosophila melanogaster. Despite causing 'hybrid dysgenesis', a syndrome of abnormal phenotypes that include sterility, the P-element spread globally in the course of a few decades in D. melanogaster. Until recently, its sister species, including D....
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