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SUBMITTER: Ludlow AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1634901 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20061001 1600
Post-mating reproductive isolating mechanisms may be among the earliest reproductive barriers to emerge among incipient species. Trinidadian guppy, Poecilia reticulata, populations in the Caroni and Oropouche drainages in Northern Trinidad exhibit marked genetic divergence and provide an ideal system in which to search for these barriers. We inseminated virgin females with equal amounts of sperm from two males, a 'native' male from the female's own population and a 'foreign' male from the other ...[more]