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Hybridization and the colonization of novel habitats by annual sunflowers.
Genetica - 1 Feb 2007
Rieseberg Loren H, Kim Seung-Chul, Randell Rebecca A, Whitney Kenneth D, Gross Briana L, Lexer Christian, Clay Keith
Abstract excerpt
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...
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