The role of homoploid hybridization in evolution: A century of studies synthesizing genetics and ecology

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 101, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1247-1258

  Yakimowski, Sarah B ^a   Rieseberg, Loren H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Homoploid speciation; Hybrid; Introgression; Invasion; Selection; Stebbins; Transgressive segregation

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; PLANT; PLANT CHROMOSOME; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; ECOLOGY; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; PLANTS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84907317071     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1400201     Document Type: Article

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