Hybridization is an evolutionary phenomenon that has fascinated biologists for centuries.
Prior to the advent of whole-genome sequencing, it was clear that hybridization had played …

Hybridization, defined as breeding between two distinct taxonomic units, can have an
important effect on the evolutionary patterns in cross-breeding taxa. Although interspecific …

Genetic variation is fundamental to population fitness and adaptation to environmental
change. Human activities are driving declines in many wild populations and could have …

The Russian Farm-Fox Experiment is the best known experimental study in animal
domestication. By subjecting a population of foxes to selection for tameness alone, Dimitry …

Current rates of climate change require organisms to respond through migration, phenotypic
plasticity, or genetic changes via adaptation. We focused on questions regarding species' …

Goat domestication was critical for agriculture and civilization, but its underlying genetic
changes and selection regimes remain unclear. Here, we analyze the genomes of …

In spite of the long‐term interest in the process of balancing selection, its frequency in
genomes and evolutionary significance remain unclear due to challenges related to its …

Supergenes are groups of tightly linked loci whose variation is inherited as a single
Mendelian locus and are a common genetic architecture for complex traits under balancing …

The European wildcat population in Scotland is considered critically endangered as a result
of hybridization with introduced domestic cats, 1, 2 though the time frame over which this …

Balancing selection describes any form of natural selection, which results in the persistence
of multiple variants of a trait at intermediate frequencies within populations. By offering up a …