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Three offspring are yellow because Y is epistatic to w.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Three offspring are yellow, because w is not epistatic.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Thus, the C gene is epistatic to the A gene.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

To our knowledge, there is no way to explain why the hybrid genetic background is “sensitized” at a rate that increases quadratically with divergence time unless one invokes negative epistatic interactions in hybrids.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 15, 2011

The snowball effect holds even if some of the candidate regions cause HI through haploinsufficiency rather than by negative epistatic interactions.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 15, 2011