Exceptions
There are notable exceptions to Haldane's rule, where the homogametic sex turns out to be inviable while the heterogametic sex is viable and fertile. This has been most commonly noted in Drosophila, where it is proposed to function through maternal effect genes and their interaction with species-specific heterochromatin.
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