Natural hybridization: How low can you go and still be important?

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 371-381

  Arnold, Michael L ^a   Bulger, Mark R ^a   Burke, John M ^a   Hempel, Alice L ^a   Williams, Joseph H ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Evolutionary innovations; Hybrid fitness; Hybrid zones; Natural hybridization; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GENOTYPE; HYBRIDIZATION; POPULATION GENETICS;

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; HYBRID ZONE; HYBRIDIZATION;

EID: 0033021711     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[0371:NHHLCY]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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