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Making a murderer: The evolutionary framing of hybrid gamete-killers

Sweigart, ALB, Yaniv; Fishman, Lila, Trends in Genetics, 35:245-252. 2019.

Recent molecular investigations of hybrid incompatibilities have revealed fascinating patterns of genetic interactions that have been interpreted as the remnants of a history of selfish evolution. Instead of framing hybrid incompatibilities in light of genetic conflict, we ...
Keywords: epistasis, gamete-killers, gene drive ecology, gene drive evolution, gene drive natural, hybrid incompatibilities, plants, selfish evolution, toxin antidote