SynthesisEcology letters2014
Hybridisation is associated with increased fecundity and size in invasive taxa: meta-analytic support for the hybridisation-invasion hypothesis.
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- Population mixing mediates the intestinal flora composition and facilitates invasiveness in a globally invasive fruit fly.Microbiome · 2023Article
- Autopolyploids of Arabidopsis thaliana are more phenotypically plastic than their diploid progenitors.Annals of botany · 2023Article
- Greater flowering and response to flooding inAoB PLANTS · 2023Article
- Additive and non-additive epigenetic signatures of natural hybridization between fish species with different mating systems.Epigenetics · 2022Article
- Changing patterns of genetic differentiation in the slender wild oat,Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Understanding the biology of species' ranges: when and how does evolution change the rules of ecological engagement?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Changes in selection pressure can facilitate hybridization during biological invasion in a Cuban lizard.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Epigenetics and the success of invasive plants.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Biological and trophic consequences of genetic introgression between endemic and invasiveBiological invasions · 2021Article
- The mosaic genome of indigenous African cattle as a unique genetic resource for African pastoralism.Nature genetics · 2020Article
- Genetic Diversity and Thermal Performance in Invasive and Native Populations of African Fig Flies.Molecular biology and evolution · 2020Article
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Abstract
The hypothesis that interspecific hybridisation promotes invasiveness has received much recent attention, but tests of the hypothesis can suffer from important limitations. Here, we provide the first systematic review of studies experimentally testing the hybridisation-invasion (H-I) hypothesis in plants, animals and fungi. We identified 72 hybrid systems for which hybridisation has been putatively associated with invasiveness, weediness or range expansion. Within this group, 15 systems (comprising 34 studies) experimentally tested performance of hybrids vs. their parental species and met our other criteria. Both phylogenetic and non-phylogenetic meta-analyses demonstrated that wild hybrids were significantly more fecund and larger than their parental taxa, but did not differ in survival. Resynthesised hybrids (which typically represent earlier generations than do wild hybrids) did not consistently differ from parental species in fecundity, survival or size. Using meta-regression, we found that fecundity increased (but survival decreased) with generation in resynthesised hybrids, suggesting that natural selection can play an important role in shaping hybrid performance - and thus invasiveness - over time. We conclude that the available evidence supports the H-I hypothesis, with the caveat that our results are clearly driven by tests in plants, which are more numerous than tests in animals and fungi.
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