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Hybridization produces novelty when the mapping of form to function is many to one.
BMC evolutionary biology - 28 Apr 2008
Parnell Nicholas F, Hulsey C Darrin, Streelman J Todd
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BACKGROUND: Evolutionary biologists want to explain the origin of novel features and functions. Two recent but separate lines of research address this question. The first describes one possible outcome of hybridization, called transgressive segregation, where hybrid offspring exhibit trait distributions outside of the parental range. The second considers the explicit mapping of form to function and illustrates...
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