Genetic basis of sperm and testis length differences and epistatic effect on hybrid inviability and sperm motility between Drosophila simulans and D. sechellia

Heredity

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 354-362

  Joly, Dominique ^a   Bazin, Claude ^a   Zeng, Ling Wen ^b   Singh, Rama S ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drosophila; epistatic effect; speciation; species differences; sperm length; testis length

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS;

EID: 0031127088     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.1997.58     Document Type: Article

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