Genetic rescue of inviable hybrids between Drosophila melanogaster and its sibling species.

doi:10.1038/327331a0

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Genetic rescue of inviable hybrids between Drosophila melanogaster and its sibling species.

Nature - 1 Jan 2000

Hutter P, Ashburner M

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Post-mating mechanisms are central to the establishment of reproductive isolation between different, but closely related, species. Post-mating isolation mechanisms include hybrid breakdown, hybrid sterility and hybrid lethality and may, in some cases, be reinforced by pre-mating mechanisms such a...

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Animals
Drosophila
Drosophila melanogaster
Female
Genes, Lethal
Hybridization, Genetic
Male
Mutation
Reproduction

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