ArticleEvolutionary applications2014
Hybridization facilitates evolutionary rescue.
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- Genetics and genomics of hybridization.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2026Review
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- Impacts of limits to adaptation on population and community persistence in a changing environment.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Hybrid adaptation is hampered by Haldane's sieve.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- Phylogenomics reveals widespread hybridization and polyploidization in Henckelia (Gesneriaceae).Annals of botany · 2023Article
- Genomic Consequences of and Demographic Response to Pervasive Hybridization Over Time in Climate-Sensitive Pikas.Molecular biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Hybrid evolution repeats itself across environmental contexts in Texas sunflowers (Helianthus).Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
- Hybridization may aid evolutionary rescue of an endangered East African passerine.Evolutionary applications · 2022Article
- Mottled Duck introductions to South Carolina: The ugly, the bad, and the good?Ecology and evolution · 2022Review
- A Saccharomyces eubayanus haploid resource for research studies.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Approximate Bayesian Computation Untangles Signatures of Contemporary and Historical Hybridization between Two Endangered Species.Molecular biology and evolution · 2022Article
- The relevance of genetic structure in ecotype designation and conservation management.Evolutionary applications · 2022Article
- Genotype-by-environment interactions drive the maintenance of genetic variation in aEvolutionary applications · 2021Article
- Morphological ghosts of introgression in Darwin's finch populations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Interspecific hybrids show a reduced adaptive potential under DNA damaging conditions.Evolutionary applications · 2021Article
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Abstract
The resilience of populations to rapid environmental degradation is a major concern for biodiversity conservation. When environments deteriorate to lethal levels, species must evolve to adapt to the new conditions to avoid extinction. Here, we test the hypothesis that evolutionary rescue may be enabled by hybridization, because hybridization increases genetic variability. Using experimental evolution, we show that interspecific hybrid populations of Saccharomyces yeast adapt to grow in more highly degraded environments than intraspecific and parental crosses, resulting in survival rates far exceeding those of their ancestors. We conclude that hybridization can increase evolutionary responsiveness and that taxa able to exchange genes with distant relatives may better survive rapid environmental change.
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