Hybridization and whole‐genome duplication are both potential mechanisms of rapid
speciation which sometimes act in concert. Recent surveys, showing that homoploid hybrid …

Hybrid incompatibilities contribute to reproductive isolation between species, allowing them
to follow independent evolutionary trajectories. Since hybrid incompatibilities are by …

Natural hybridisation is now recognised as pervasive in its occurrence across the Tree of
Life. Resurgent interest in natural hybridisation fuelled by developments in genomics has …

Although the evolutionary importance of natural hybridization has been debated for
decades, it has become increasingly clear that hybridization plays a fundamental role in the …

Genome duplication represents a dramatic, yet relatively common, genomic change, having
occurred in the evolutionary history of angiosperms, vertebrates, and yeast, among many …

Hybridization is often maladaptive and in some instances has led to the loss of biodiversity.
However, hybridization can also promote speciation, such as during homoploid hybrid …

Investigators have long searched for a polyploidy paradigm—rules or principles that might
be common following polyploidization (whole‐genome duplication, WGD). Here we attempt …

Homoploid hybrid speciation (HHS) involves the recombination of two differentiated
genomes into a novel, functional one without a change in chromosome number …

One of the striking observations from recent whole‐genome comparisons is that changes in
the number of specialized genes in existing gene families, as opposed to novel taxon …

Hybridization blurs species boundaries and leads to intertwined lineages resulting in
reticulate evolution. Polyploidy, the outcome of whole genome duplication (WGD), has more …