ArticleGenetica2007
Hybridization and the colonization of novel habitats by annual sunflowers.
Article in Genetica, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 115 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Hybridisation is associated with increased fecundity and size in invasive taxa: meta-analytic support for the hybridisation-invasion hypothesis.Ecology letters · 2014Pooled it
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- A Macaque Model for the Effects of Hybridization on Body Size.American journal of biological anthropology · 2025Article
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- Multiple stressors lead to complex responses in reproductive behaviors in an African cichlid.Current zoology · 2024Article
- Insular environment-dependent introgression from an arid-grassland orchid to a wetland orchid on an oceanic island.Evolution letters · 2024Article
- The Ecology of Hybrid Incompatibilities.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2024Review
- Novel Mito-Nuclear Combinations Facilitate the Global Invasion of a Major Agricultural Crop Pest.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Niche and phenotypic differentiation in fern hybrid speciation, a case study of Pteris fauriei (Pteridaceae).Annals of botany · 2024Article
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Abstract
Although invasive plant species often have a hybrid ancestry, unambiguous evidence that hybridization has stimulated the evolution of invasive behaviors has been difficult to come by. Here, we briefly review how hybridization might contribute to the colonization of novel habitats, range expansions, and invasiveness and then describe work on hybrid sunflowers that forges a direct link between hybridization and ecological divergence. We first discuss the invasion of Texas by the common sunflower and show that the introgression of chromosomal segments from a locally adapted species may have facilitated range expansion. We then present evidence that the colonization of sand dune, desert floor, and salt marsh habitats by three hybrid sunflower species was made possible by selection on extreme or "transgressive" phenotypes generated by hybridization. This body of work corroborates earlier claims regarding the role of hybridization in adaptive evolution and provides an experimental and conceptual framework for ongoing studies in this area.
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