On the difficulties of discriminating between major and minor hybrid male sterility factors in Drosophila by examining the segregation ratio of sterile and fertile sons in backcrossing experiments

Heredity

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 433-438

  Maside, Xulio R ^a   Naveira, Horacio F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drosophila; hybrid males; major genes; polygenes; recombination, sterility

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030272447     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1996.163     Document Type: Article

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