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. 2009 Apr;181(4):1545–1555. doi: 10.1534/genetics.108.098392

Figure 1.—

Figure 1.—

The Dobzhansky–Muller model for the evolution of postzygotic isolation. An ancestral population aabb splits into two independent populations that then accumulate substitutions. Epistatic interactions between underlined substitutions cause hybrid incompatibilities. (A) A derived-derived incompatibility. (B) A derived-ancestral incompatibility.