Was Asian Rice (Oryza sativa) Domesticated More Than Once?

DA Vaughan, BR Lu, N Tomooka - Rice, 2008 - Springer
Recently, a dual or multiple origin of domesticated rice has been the prevailing opinion
among rice scientists because rice is clearly differentiated into two major varietal groups …

MOLECULAR DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE ANNUAL SUNFLOWERS HELIANTHUS ANNUUS AND H. PETIOLARIS—LARGE EFFECTIVE POPULATION …

JL Strasburg, LH Rieseberg - Evolution, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Hybridization between distinct species may lead to introgression of genes across species
boundaries, and this pattern can potentially persist for extended periods as long as selection …

Phylogenetics and reticulate evolution in Pistacia (Anacardiaceae)

T Yi, J Wen, A Golan‐Goldhirsh… - American Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The systematic position and intrageneric relationships of the economically important Pistacia
species (Anacardiaceae) are controversial. The phylogeny of Pistacia was assessed using …

The enigmatic invasive Spartina densiflora: A history of hybridizations in a polyploidy context

PM Fortune, K Schierenbeck, D Ayres… - Molecular …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this study was to explore the origin of the invasive Spartina densiflora by
analysing samples from the native region (South America) and from a recently colonized …

Hybridization, polyploidy, and evolutionary transitions between monoecy and dioecy in Bryonia (Cucurbitaceae)

SM Volz, SS Renner - American Journal of Botany, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Correns's 1903 (Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 21: 133–147) crosses
between a monoecious and a dioecious species of Bryonia revealed the simple Mendelian …

Morphological and molecular evidence of natural hybridization between two distantly related Rhododendron species from the Sino-Himalaya

HG Zha, RI Milne, H Sun - Botanical Journal of the Linnean …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Rhododendron (Ericaceae) is a large woody genus in which hybridization may play an
important role in evolution and speciation, particularly in the Sino-Himalayan region, where …

Good species despite massive hybridization: genetic research on the contact zone between the watersnakes Nerodia sipedon and N. fasciata in the Carolinas, USA

K Mebert - Molecular Ecology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Genomic markers generated with the amplified fragment length polymorphism method
revealed extensive, panmictic‐like hybridization along the narrow contact zone between the …

Nucleotide variation in Quercus crispula Blume

ND Quang, S Ikeda, K Harada - Heredity, 2008 - nature.com
Quercus is attractive for evolutionary studies, primarily for developing the concepts of the
species, speciation and adaptation; however, remarkably little is known about levels of …

Hybrid origin and genomic mosaicism of Dubautia scabra (Hawaiian silversword alliance; Asteraceae, Madiinae)

EA Friar, LM Prince, JM Cruse-Sanders… - Systematic …, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
Incongruence among different estimates of species relationships in plants, from different
molecules, cytogenetic data, biogeographic data, morphological/anatomical data or other …

Different flooding responses in Rorippa amphibia and Rorippa sylvestris, and their modes of expression in F1 hybrids

M Stift, PC Luttikhuizen, EJW Visser… - New …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The river floodplain species Rorippa amphibia, Rorippa sylvestris, and their hybrid
RorippaÎáanceps were studied here, with the aim of identifying potential species differences …