Article
Genetic distance between species predicts novel trait expression in their hybrids.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Apr 2009
Stelkens Rike, Seehausen Ole
Abstract excerpt
Interspecific hybridization can generate transgressive hybrid phenotypes with extreme trait values exceeding the combined range of the parental species. Such variation can enlarge the working surface for natural selection, and may facilitate the evolution of novel adaptations where ecological opp...
Topics
- Adaptation, Biological
- Animals
- Crosses, Genetic
- Genetic Variation
- Hybridization, Genetic
- Phenotype
- Plants
- Quantitative Trait Loci