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Nature Genetics 41, 147 (1 February 2009) | doi:10.1038/ng0209-147

Research Highlights

Males in overdrive Although evolutionary biologists explain the evolution of reproductive isolation as a side effect of adaptation to the ecological environment, Nitin Phadnis and H. Allen Orr now report findings to support the idea that genetic conflict, a form of adaptation to the internal genomic environment, may be an important force in the evolution of postzygotic isolation (Science advance online publication 11 December 2008; doi:10.1126/science.