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Assortative mating and the maintenance of population structure in a natural hybrid zone.
The American naturalist - 1 Aug 2014
Culumber Zachary W, Ochoa Olivia M, Rosenthal Gil G
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Understanding the factors that give rise to natural hybrid zones and govern their dynamics and structure is important to predicting the evolutionary consequences of hybridization. Here we use a combination of multigenerational population genetic data, mating patterns from a natural population, behavioral assays, and mark-recapture data within clinal hybrid zones of the genus Xiphophorus to test the role of...
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