Hybrid speciation

James Mallet ()
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James Mallet: Galton Laboratory, University College London, 4 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HE, UK

Nature, 2007, vol. 446, issue 7133, 279-283

Abstract: Improving the breed The role of hybridization in species formation is a controversial topic. In plants, hybrid speciation via polyploidy (such as chromosome duplication) is quite common, and in a review this week James Mallet marshals genetic evidence that suggests that hybrid speciation without polyploidy is more common than was thought. Surprisingly, that goes for animals as well as plants and includes humans, where hybridization may have been a factor in the origin of Homo sapiens.

Date: 2007
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