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Bidirectional Introgression between Mus musculus domesticus and Mus spretus.
Genome biology and evolution - 4 Jan 2022
Banker Sarah E, Bonhomme François, Nachman Michael W
Abstract excerpt
Introgressed variants from other species can be an important source of genetic variation because they may arise rapidly, can include multiple mutations on a single haplotype, and have often been pretested by selection in the species of origin. Although introgressed alleles are generally deleterious, several studies have reported introgression as the source of adaptive alleles-including the rodenticide-resistant...
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