Spontaneous whole-genome duplication restores fertility in interspecific hybrids
Guillaume Charron, Souhir Marsit, Mathieu Henault, Helene Martin, Christian Landry
The paper shows that spontaneous whole-genome duplication in yeast hybrids rapidly restores fertility, demonstrating ploidy changes as a path to hybrid speciation.
bioRxiv · Feb 1, 2019Evolutionary Biology