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Sperm quality, aggressiveness and generation turnover may facilitate unidirectional Y chromosome introgression across the European house mouse hybrid zone.
Heredity - 1 Oct 2020
Bímová Barbora Vošlajerová, Macholán Miloš, Ďureje Ľudovít, Bímová Kateřina Berchová, Martincová Iva, Piálek Jaroslav
Abstract excerpt
The widespread and locally massive introgression of Y chromosomes of the eastern house mouse (Mus musculus musculus) into the range of the western subspecies (M. m. domesticus) in Central Europe calls for an explanation of its underlying mechanisms. Given the paternal inheritance pattern, obvious candidates for traits mediating the introgression are characters associated with sperm quantity and quality. We can...
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