Engineering multiple species-like genetic incompatibilities in insects

Natural speciation can be driven by pre-zygotic and post-zygotic barriers. Here the authors use a dominant lethal transgene coupled to a recessive resistance allele to engineer species-like barriers in Drosophila.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Maciej Maselko, Nathan Feltman, Ambuj Upadhyay, Amanda Hayward, Siba Das, Nathan Myslicki, Aidan J. Peterson, Michael B. O’Connor, Michael J. Smanski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18348-1