Speciation: more than the sum of the parts.
Genetic studies are beginning to provide insights into the evolutionary processes that reduce the fitness of hybrids between recently diverged species. However, the deleterious gene interactions responsible for this fitness reduction are still poorly understood.
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Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002678:Chimera / Q000235:genetics; D004330:Drosophila; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility / Q000235:genetics; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D008297:Male