A fungal species native to Iran which attacks grasses is the result of natural hybridization that occurred just a few hundred years ago.
Biotechnology
Jul 3, 2012
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Researchers say they now know what allows some Western corn rootworms to survive crop rotation, a farming practice that once effectively managed the rootworm pests. The answer to the decades-long mystery of rotation-resistant ...
Ecology
Jun 24, 2013
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Hybrid plants with multiple genome copies show evidence of preferential treatment of the genes from one ancient parent over the genes of the other parent, even to the point where some of the unfavored genes eventually are ...
Biotechnology
Mar 9, 2011
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If evolution was originally depicted as a tree, with different species branching off as new blooms, then new research shows how the branches may actually be more entangled. In "Hybrid speciation driven by multilocus introgression ...
Evolution
Apr 17, 2024
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When wild flowering plants are sizing up others they may often end up in a marriage between close relatives rather than neighbors, a new study has revealed.
Plants & Animals
Apr 12, 2023
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A pair of new studies from the Wildlife Conservation Society, Idaho State University, and the University of Nevada Reno look at the surprising variety of factors that prevent two closely related species of woodrats from becoming ...
Evolution
Mar 27, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Massey University scientists have discovered a universal law that explains how hybrid species survive and thrive.
Biotechnology
Mar 7, 2014
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Among birds, the line between species is often blurry. Some closely related species interbreed where their ranges overlap, producing hybrid offspring that can even backcross with either parent species, until a whole population ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 18, 2015
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Compared to allopolyploid speciation, there are fewer cases of homoploid hybrid speciation in plants. Although transient homoploid hybridization events have been detected in many plant genera, solid evidence from genomic ...
Evolution
Jun 28, 2023
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Researchers from Vetmeduni Vienna collected quantified data on hybrid forms of two species of the northern house mosquito in eastern Austria. The reproductive hybrid feeds on the blood of both birds and humans, in contrast ...
Ecology
Apr 26, 2016
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