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- adjective biology of or pertaining to the relationship between the
nucleus of a cell and thecytoplasm
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Examples
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Frequency-dependent selection models are what Marjorie Asmussen did, and I worked in her lab for a while, so the term is familiar to me–just like cytonuclear disequilibria–but I certainly am ignorant on these topics.
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In this study, Dr. Leu and his colleagues attempted to determine whether cytonuclear incompatibility is a common cause of reproductive isolation in yeasts.
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"Our results suggest that cytonuclear incompatibility can be achieved by multiple molecular mechanisms and it potentially represents a general mechanism of reproductive isolation in yeast species," said
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They revealed that most of the hybrid spores were respiration-deficient, indicating cytonuclear incompatibility.
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