Our paper won the 2018 GENETICS Editors’ Choice Award for Population Genetics!
EDITORS’ CHOICE AWARD IN POPULATION GENETICS
The Evolution of Polymorphic Hybrid Incompatibilities in House Mice
Erica L. Larson, Dan Vanderpool, Brice A. J. Sarver, Colin Callahan, Sara Keeble, Lorraine L. Provencio, Michael D. Kessler, Vanessa Stewart, Erin Nordquist, Matthew D. Dean, and Jeffrey M. Good
Genetics July 2018 209: 845–859
Editor’s Note
Reproductive barriers are often assumed to arise from fixed genetic differences between species, despite frequent individual variation in the strength of reproductive isolation between populations. Larson et al. report polymorphism at several hybrid male sterility loci in house mice, and their results demonstrate that selection against deleterious hybrid interactions can drive the introgression of hybrid incompatibilities, highlighting the need for more extensive sampling of natural variation in speciation studies.
