Joshua V Peñalba, Anna Runemark, Joana I Meier, Pooja Singh, Guinevere O U Wogan, Rosa Sánchez-Guillén, James Mallet, Sina J Rometsch, Mitra Menon, Ole Seehausen, Jonna Kulmuni, Ricardo J Pereira
Hybridization, or interbreeding between different taxa, was traditionally considered to be rare and to have a largely detrimental impact on biodiversity, sometimes leading to the breakdown of reproductive isolation and even to the reversal of speciation. However, modern genomic and analytical methods have shown that hybridization is common in some of the most diverse clades across the tree of life, sometimes leading to rapid increase of phenotypic variability, to introgression of adaptive alleles, to the formation of hybrid species, and even to entire species radiations...
March 4, 2024: Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology