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Embryonic development and inviability phenotype of chicken-Japanese quail F1 hybrids.
Scientific reports - 20 May 2016
Ishishita Satoshi, Kinoshita Keiji, Nakano Mikiharu, Matsuda Yoichi
Abstract excerpt
Interspecific hybrid incompatibility, including inviability and sterility, is important in speciation; however, its genetic basis remains largely unknown in vertebrates. Crosses between male chickens and female Japanese quails using artificial insemination can generate intergeneric hybrids; however, the hatching rate is low, and hatched hybrids are only sterile males. Hybrid development is arrested frequently...
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