Article
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 H...
Topics
- Aedes
- Animals
- Anopheles
- Biological Evolution
- Crosses, Genetic
- Female
- Fertility
- Genes, Dominant
- Genes, Recessive
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
- Hybridization, Genetic
- Infertility
- Male
- Models, Genetic
- Sex Characteristics
- X Chromosome