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Assortative mating and differential male mating success in an ash hybrid zone population.
BMC evolutionary biology - 15 Nov 2006
Gérard Pierre R, Klein Etienne K, Austerlitz Frédéric, Fernández-Manjarrés Juan F, Frascaria-Lacoste Nathalie
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BACKGROUND: The structure and evolution of hybrid zones depend mainly on the relative importance of dispersal and local adaptation, and on the strength of assortative mating. Here, we study the influence of dispersal, temporal isolation, variability in phenotypic traits and parasite attacks on the male mating success of two parental species and hybrids by real-time pollen flow analysis. We focus on a hybrid zone...
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