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Hybrid incompatibility caused by an epiallele.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 4 Apr 2017
Blevins Todd, Wang Jing, Pflieger David, Pontvianne Frédéric, Pikaard Craig S
Abstract excerpt
Hybrid incompatibility resulting from deleterious gene combinations is thought to be an important step toward reproductive isolation and speciation. Here, we demonstrate involvement of a silent epiallele in hybrid incompatibility. In Arabidopsis thaliana accession Cvi-0, one of the two copies of a duplicated histidine biosynthesis gene, HISN6A, is mutated, making HISN6B essential. In contrast, in accession Col-0,...
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