#hybridization — Public Fediverse posts

My newest #Prelights article highlights a #preprint by B. R. Baisla et al. (2025) and their search for morphological #prezygotic #barriers to reduce #hybridization among the species complex of #Nasonia, #parasitoid wasps. Male genital morphology apparently does not prevent hybridization, pre-mating #barriers are still unknown.
©#StefanFWirth 2026

Reference

Prelights article by Stefan F. Wirth:
https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/morphological-variations-in-external-genitalia-do-not-explain-the-interspecific-reproductive-isolation-in-nasonia-species-complex-hymenoptera-pteromalidae/

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1) public domain, M.E.Clark, 2006,
2) ©S.F.Wirth, AI illustration

No evidence of transposable element bursts in the Galápagos Scalesia adaptive radiation despite hybridization, diversification and ecological niche shifts.

#Transposons #TEburst #AdaptiveRadiation #Diversification #Hybridization #Scalesia #PlantScience

https://mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13100-025-00362-z

Against my better judgement I ordered a tayberry, a hybrid of blackberry and raspberry created in 1979 near the Tay River in Scotland. Tried an ice cream with this flavor a few years ago and it tasted exactly like Pepto-Bismol. Giving it a second chance. #tayberry #berries #fruit #garden #gardening #rubus #blackberry #raspberry #hybridization

New mask technology balances protection and comfort effectively https://www.byteseu.com/1033014/ #COVID19 #Hybridization #Nanoparticle #Nanoparticles #Pandemic #Research #Technology

Exited to see our paper on gene flow and speciation in thrushes come out in Molecular Ecology. Really fun and interesting work with Kira Delmore and @JeffDaCosta. #speciation, #geneflow, #hybridization, #birds

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.17635

#Genetic breeding offers new method for #mosquito population control.

#Aedes #hybridization #sex_determination

https://phys.org/news/2024-07-genetic-method-mosquito-population.html

Fungal hybrids study finds #ClimateCrisis could trigger outbreak of new and lethal diseases
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-fungal-hybrids-climate-crisis-trigger.html

Origin of #fungal #hybrids with pathogenic potential from warm seawater environments: Valentina del Olmo et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42679-4

"#Candida orthopsilosis is a hybrid #microbe that originated from 2 other parental #fungi in a marine environment. And it is precisely this #hybridization that has conferred certain properties which make it a potential threat to global health."

A polygenic explanation for Haldane’s rule in butterflies
Xiong et al. (Jim Mallet's team)
#PopGen #Hybridization #Polygenic

"numerous small-effect factors on a single chromosome can appear as spurious large-effect loci. This mapping artifact persists even for large samples and dense markers and may cause underreporting of polygenicity from genetic crosses."

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2300959120

It’s beginning to look a lot like… a brand new evolution experiment happening in the lab! ✨✨✨#yeast #Saccharomyces #ExperimentalEvolution #Hybridization

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Biologist currently studying #WolfSpiders, #PocketGophers, #BumbleBees #Shrews, the wildflower genus Anemone, and #CrawfishFrogs--mostly using population genetic techniques.

#Biodiversity
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#introduction I am a European-American primatologist that studies all things ‘omics of the highly charismatic Brazilian marmosets. I am new to working with howlers as well. I am out here to post mostly of about #Hybridization, #microbiome, #primates, #brazil, #omics, #viruses, #NanoporeSequencing, and #disease susceptibility.

Belatedly, I am a plant systematist at The Morton #Arboretum, with active projects in #oaks (#phylogenetics / #phylogenomics, #hybridization, #introgression, genetic and functional #diversity), #prairies (effects of #phylogenetic and functional diversity on #restoration outcomes), #sedges (#genome and #chromosome evolution), and other plant groups. I also tweet on #botany and #NaturalHistory of the #Chicago region and other areas. Meet my lab at: https://systematics.mortonarb.org

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Published ahead of print! #AssortativeMating in an Ecological Context: Effects of #MateChoice Errors and Relative #Species Abundance on the Frequency and Asymmetry of #Hybridization by Qvarnström et al. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/722156