{"title":"Double heterozygosity of chromosomal inversion in mice: a key to speciation.","authors":"Y Rumpler","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Inversion can be very efficient as a reproductive barrier when the same chromosomes are involved in two different rearrangements leading to a double loop during the pachytene stage. The consequence can be a strongly reduced fertility of the double heterozygotes, leading to an irreversible dichotomy.</p>","PeriodicalId":75534,"journal":{"name":"Archives d'anatomie, d'histologie et d'embryologie normales et experimentales","volume":"75 ","pages":"101-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Archives d'anatomie, d'histologie et d'embryologie normales et experimentales","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Inversion can be very efficient as a reproductive barrier when the same chromosomes are involved in two different rearrangements leading to a double loop during the pachytene stage. The consequence can be a strongly reduced fertility of the double heterozygotes, leading to an irreversible dichotomy.