Viviparity-driven conflict: More to speciation than meets the fly

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1133, Issue , 2008, Pages 126-148

  Zeh, Jeanne A ^a   Zeh, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiosperms; Drosophila; Epigenetics; Genomic conflict; Genomic imprinting; Mammals; Reproductive isolating mechanisms; Reproductive mode; Viviparity

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICISM; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENOME IMPRINTING; HYBRID; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; VIVIPARITY; ZYGOTE;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MAMMALIA; PISCES;

EID: 45249097612     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1438.006     Document Type: Review

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