Genetic incompatibilities are widespread within species

Russell B. Corbett-Detig, Jun Zhou, Andrew G. Clark, Daniel L. Hartl and Julien F. Ayroles ()
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Russell B. Corbett-Detig: Harvard University
Jun Zhou: Harvard University
Andrew G. Clark: Cornell University
Daniel L. Hartl: Harvard University
Julien F. Ayroles: Harvard University

Nature, 2013, vol. 504, issue 7478, 135-137

Abstract: The role that epistasis — non-additive interactions between alleles — plays in shaping population fitness is investigated in Drosophila melanogaster; the raw material to drive reproductive isolation is found to be segregating contemporaneously within species and does not necessarily require the emergence of incompatible mutations independently derived and fixed in allopatry.

Date: 2013
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