Hybrid incompatibility caused by an epiallele
Todd Blevins, Jing Wang, David Pflieger, Frédéric Pontvianne, Craig S. Pikaard
The paper shows that an epiallele causes hybrid incompatibility in Arabidopsis thaliana by silencing a gene copy, leading to lethal gene combinations in hybrids.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Mar 7, 2017Peer-reviewedGenetics