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The genetic ghost of an invasion past: colonization and extinction revealed by historical hybridization in Senecio.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jan 2012
Pelser Pieter B, Abbott Richard J, Comes Hans P, Milton Joseph J, Möller Michael, Looseley Mark E, Cron Glynis V, Barcelona Julie F, Kennedy Aaron H, Watson Linda E, Barone Rubén, Hernández Fabián, Kadereit Joachim W
Abstract excerpt
Hybridization is an important evolutionary factor in the diversification of many plant and animal species. Of particular interest is that historical hybridization resulting in the origin of new species or introgressants has occurred between species now geographically separated by great distances. Here, we report that Senecio massaicus, a tetraploid species native to Morocco and the Canary Islands, contains...
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