A novel system of fertility rescue in Drosophila hybrids reveals a link between hybrid lethality and female sterility

Genetics

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 217-226

  Barbash, Daniel A ^a,b   Ashburner, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACKCROSSING; CROSS HYBRIDIZATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MAURITIANA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE STERILITY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HYBRID; LOW TEMPERATURE; MALE; MALE STERILITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENES, LETHAL; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MUTATION;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MAURITIANA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0037274643     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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