Climate change is profoundly affecting the evolutionary trajectory of individual species and
ecological communities, in part through the creation of novel species assemblages. How …

The evolutionary significance of introgression has been discussed for decades. Questions
about potential impacts of transgene flow into wild and weedy populations brought renewed …

The hypothesis that interspecific hybridisation promotes invasiveness has received much
recent attention, but tests of the hypothesis can suffer from important limitations. Here, we …

This paper explores how a lack of taxonomic expertise, and by implication a dearth of
taxonomic products such as identification tools, has hindered progress in understanding and …

Hybridization is a common phenomenon, yet its evolutionary outcomes remain debated.
Here, we ask whether hybridization can speed adaptive evolution using resynthesized …

Highlights•Although many plants are extant polyploids, the number of ancient polyploidy
events that survived on the long term is limited.•Many whole genome duplications seem to …

Hybridization is one of the fundamental mechanisms by which rapid evolution can occur in
exotic species. If hybrids show increased vigour, this could significantly contribute to …

Hybridization is a biological phenomenon increasingly recognized as an important
evolutionary process in both plants and animals, as it is linked to speciation, radiation …

Gene flow between crops and their weedy or wild relatives can be problematic in modern
agricultural systems, especially if it endows novel adaptive genes that confer tolerance to …

The objective of this study was to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting fitness of
hybrids between wild soybean (Glycine soja) and cultivated soybean (Glycine max). Seed …