ReviewHeredity2012
Hybrid fitness, adaptation and evolutionary diversification: lessons learned from Louisiana Irises.
Review in Heredity, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.
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- The Complex Genetic Legacy of Hybridization and Introgression between the RarePlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Genetics and the Evolution of Prezygotic Isolation.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2024Review
- Diversification and trait evolution in New Zealand woody lineages across changing biomes.Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · 2024Article
- Evolution of a hybrid zone of two willow species (Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Ecological outcomes of hybridization vary extensively in Catostomus fishes.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
- The Reproductive Success ofAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Novel Approaches for Species Concepts and Delimitation in Polyploids and Hybrids.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Morphological, cytological, and molecular evidences for natural hybridization betweenEcology and evolution · 2022Article
- Natural hybridization among three Rhododendron species (Ericaceae) revealed by morphological and genomic evidence.BMC plant biology · 2021Article
- The genic view of hybridization in the Anthropocene.Evolutionary applications · 2021Article
- Foliose Ulva Species Show Considerable Inter-Specific Genetic Diversity, Low Intra-Specific Genetic Variation, and the Rare Occurrence of Inter-Specific Hybrids in the Wild.Journal of phycology · 2021Article
- The relation of meiotic behaviour to hybridity, polyploidy and apomixis in the Ranunculus auricomus complex (Ranunculaceae).BMC plant biology · 2020Article
- Recombining Your Way Out of Trouble: The Genetic Architecture of Hybrid Fitness under Environmental Stress.Molecular biology and evolution · 2020Article
- How Hybrid Breakdown Can Be Handled in Rice Crossbreeding?Frontiers in plant science · 2020Article
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Abstract
Estimates of hybrid fitness have been used as either a platform for testing the potential role of natural hybridization in the evolution of species and species complexes or, alternatively, as a rationale for dismissing hybridization events as being of any evolutionary significance. From the time of Darwin's publication of The Origin, through the neo-Darwinian synthesis, to the present day, the observation of variability in hybrid fitness has remained a challenge for some models of speciation. Yet, Darwin and others have reported the elevated fitness of hybrid genotypes under certain environmental conditions. In modern scientific terminology, this observation reflects the fact that hybrid genotypes can demonstrate genotype × environment interactions. In the current review, we illustrate the development of one plant species complex, namely the Louisiana Irises, into a 'model system' for investigating hybrid fitness and the role of genetic exchange in adaptive evolution and diversification. In particular, we will argue that a multitude of approaches, involving both experimental and natural environments, and incorporating both manipulative analyses and surveys of natural populations, are necessary to adequately test for the evolutionary significance of introgressive hybridization. An appreciation of the variability of hybrid fitness leads to the conclusion that certain genetic signatures reflect adaptive evolution. Furthermore, tests of the frequency of allopatric versus sympatric/parapatric divergence (that is, divergence with ongoing gene flow) support hybrid genotypes as a mechanism of evolutionary diversification in numerous species complexes.
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