Heterochromatin: a rapidly evolving species barrier

Stacie E Hughes; R Scott Hawley

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000233

Heterochromatin: a rapidly evolving species barrier

PLoS Biol. 2009 Oct;7(10):e1000233. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000233. Epub 2009 Sep 27.

Authors

Stacie E Hughes¹, R Scott Hawley

Affiliation

¹ Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

Abstract

Recent work has shown that changes in the sequence composition of heterochromatin, or in the factors that maintain that heterochromatin, may play an important role in speciation.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Crosses, Genetic
Drosophila / embryology
Drosophila / genetics*
Drosophila melanogaster / embryology
Drosophila melanogaster / genetics
Embryo, Nonmammalian / embryology
Embryo, Nonmammalian / metabolism
Evolution, Molecular
Female
Genes, Lethal / genetics
Heterochromatin / genetics*
Male
Models, Genetic
Species Specificity

Substances

Heterochromatin