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Origin of Boundary Populations in Medaka (Oryzias latipes Species Complex).
Zoological science - 1 Apr 2016
Takehana Yusuke, Sakai Masato, Narita Takanori, Sato Tadashi, Naruse Kiyoshi, Sakaizumi Mitsuru
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The Japanese wild population of the medaka fish (Oryzias latipes species complex) comprises two genetically distinct groups, the Northern and the Southern Populations, with boundary populations having a unique genotype. It is thought that the boundary populations have been formed through introgressive hybridization between the two groups, because they are fixed with the Northern alleles at two allozymic loci,...
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