Speciation genetics: epistasis, conflict and the origin of species.
Evolutionary biologists have long recognized that the sterility and inviability of species hybrids must involve incompatible epistatic interactions between two (or more) genes. The first pair of such hybrid incompatibility genes has now been identified.
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Daven C
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Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA. dvnp@mail.rochester.edu
D000818:Animals; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics*; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D004843:Epistasis, Genetic; D049810:Genetic Speciation; D006824:Hybridization, Genetic; D008957:Models, Genetic; D013045:Species Specificity
D029721:Drosophila Proteins; C495958:Hmr protein, Drosophila; C515258:Lhr protein, Drosophila