Genetic conflict outweighs heterogametic incompatibility in the mouse hybrid zone?

Abstract

Clines for genes involved in sex-ratio distortion have escaped from the centre of the mouse hybrid zone, causing a decay in the barrier to gene flow between the two house mouse taxa.

Keywords

• mus-musculus-domesticus
• androgen-binding protein
• house mouse
• sex-ratio
• mitochondrial-dna
• y-chromosome
• segregation distortion
• reproductive isolation
• unisexual sterility
• x-chromosome