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Figure 2

From: The existence of species rests on a metastable equilibrium between inbreeding and outbreeding. An essay on the close relationship between speciation, inbreeding and recessive mutations

Figure 2

Predicted chromosomal structures in zygotes issued from individuals carrying a whole arm reciprocal chromosomal translocation. In an individual carrying a reciprocal chromosomal translocation, only 50% of the offspring is viable (first line). If the cross takes place between two heterozygotes, the proportion of viable offspring drops to 6/16 (= 3/8). Once the translocation has become fixed in a population, crosses with the ancestral stock will generate a first generation (F1) that will be 100% viable, but those F1 individuals will be back to the situation of reduced fertility faced by the individuals who first carried the translocation, and this will be true whether they cross to individuals from the ancestral stock, or to individuals homozygous for the translocation.

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