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On the fast track: hybrids adapt more rapidly than parental populations in a novel environment.
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- Genetics and genomics of hybridization.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2026Review
- Pre-divergence hybridization and adaptive introgression shaped the genetic architecture of East Asian domestic pigs.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Article
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- Structural variation drives rhizome innovation and adaptive divergence in sister Medicago species.Journal of integrative plant biology · 2026Article
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- Suturing fragmented landscapes: Mosaic hybrid zones in plants may facilitate ecosystem resiliency.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Genomic Introgression Between Critically Endangered and Stable Species of Darwin's Tree Finches on the Galapagos Islands.Evolutionary applications · 2025Article
- Phylogenomic analysis of target enrichment and transcriptome data uncovers rapid radiation and extensive hybridization in the slipper orchid genus Cypripedium.Annals of botany · 2024Article
- Hybrid adaptation is hampered by Haldane's sieve.Nature communications · 2024Article
- The Complex Genetic Legacy of Hybridization and Introgression between the RarePlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Fisher's Geometric Model as a Tool to Study Speciation.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2024Review
- Evolutionary adaptation to climate change.Evolution letters · 2024Article
- Local environments, not invasive hybridization, influence cardiac performance of native trout under acute thermal stress.Evolutionary applications · 2024Article
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Abstract
Rates of hybridization are predicted to increase due to climate change and human activity that cause redistribution of species and bring previously isolated populations into contact. At the same time climate change leads to rapid changes in the environment, requiring populations to adapt rapidly in order to survive. A few empirical cases suggest hybridization can facilitate adaptation despite its potential for incompatibilities and deleterious fitness consequences. Here we use simulations and Fisher's Geometric model to evaluate the conditions and time frame of adaptation via hybridization in both diploids and haplodiploids. We find that hybrids adapt faster to new environments compared to parental populations in nearly all simulated scenarios, generating a fitness advantage that can offset intrinsic incompatibilities and last for tens of generations, regardless of whether the population was diploid or haplodiploid. Our results highlight the creative role of hybridization and suggest that hybridization may help contemporary populations adapt to the changing climate. However, adaptation by hybrids may well happen at the cost of reduced biodiversity, if previously isolated lineages collapse into one.
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