A polygenic basis of hybrid sterility may give rise to spurious localizations of major sterility factors

Heredity

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 488-492

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030292956     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1996.175     Document Type: Article

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