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Haldane's rule in taxa lacking a hemizygous X.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 30 Oct 1998
Presgraves D C, Orr H A
Abstract excerpt
Haldane's rule states that species hybrids of the XY sex are preferentially sterile or inviable. In all taxa known to obey this rule, the Y is inert and X-linked genes show full expression in XY individuals. Until recently, all theories of Haldane's rule depended on this hemizygosity. A test of Haldane's rule in animals lacking a hemizygous sex-mosquitoes having two functional sex chromosomes in both...
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