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Science 30 October 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5390, pp. 889 - 891
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5390.889
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Perspectives

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EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS:
Enhanced: The Causes of Haldane's Rule

Michael Turelli

How do new species form? A clue comes from the ubiquitous Haldane's rule, which predicts that when offspring of a mating between different animal species display sterility or inviability in one sex only, the afflicted sex has sex chromosomes of different types. In his Perspective, Turelli explains how new results presented in this issue by Presgraves and Orr explain how both of the major hypotheses explaining Haldane's rule are correct.

The author is at the Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. E-mail: mturelli{at}ucdavis.edu

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Accelerated Mitochondrial Evolution and "Darwin's Corollary": Asymmetric Viability of Reciprocal F1 Hybrids in Centrarchid Fishes.
D. I. Bolnick, M. Turelli, H. Lopez-Fernandez, P. C. Wainwright, and T. J. Near (2008)
Genetics 178, 1037-1048
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Genetic Complexity Underlying Hybrid Male Sterility in Drosophila.
K. Sawamura, J. Roote, C.-I Wu, and M.-T. Yamamoto (2004)
Genetics 166, 789-796
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Hybrid Sterility, Haldane's Rule and Speciation in Heliconius cydno and H. melpomene.
R. E. Naisbit, C. D. Jiggins, M. Linares, C. Salazar, and J. Mallet (2002)
Genetics 161, 1517-1526
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Complex Epistasis and the Genetic Basis of Hybrid Sterility in the Drosophila pseudoobscura Bogota-USA Hybridization.
H. A. Orr and S. Irving (2001)
Genetics 158, 1089-1100
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Dominance, Epistasis and the Genetics of Postzygotic Isolation.
M. Turelli and H. A. Orr (2000)
Genetics 154, 1663-1679
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