The genetics of hybrid incompatibilities

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue , 2011, Pages 331-355

  Maheshwari, Shamoni ^a   Barbash, Daniel A ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Dobzhansky Muller genes; Genetic conflicts; Hybrid incompatibility; Hybrids; Molecular evolution; Speciation

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HYBRID GENE; INTROGRESSION; KARYOTYPING; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES BAYANUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ANIMALS; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENETIC PLEIOTROPY; GENETIC SPECIATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MUTATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 80755169477     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-110410-132514     Document Type: Article

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