Hybridization, Genetic

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A cytonuclear incompatibility causes anther sterility in Mimulus hybrids. 
  • A genetic legacy of introgression confounds phylogeny and biogeography in oaks. 
  • Age at maturity in wild baboons: genetic, environmental and demographic influences. 
  • Allotetraploid Mimulus sookensis are highly interfertile despite independent origins. 
  • Altered toll-like receptor responsiveness underlies a dominant heritable defect in B cell tolerance in autoimmune New Zealand Black mice. 
  • Association of misexpression with sterility in hybrids of Drosophila simulansand D. mauritiana. 
  • Biosensors and biochips: advances in biological and medical diagnostics. 
  • Chromosomal inversions and the reproductive isolation of species. 
  • Comment on "Evolutionary paths underlying flower color variation in Antirrhinum" 
  • Differential adaptation to a harsh granite outcrop habitat between sympatric Mimulus species. 
  • Disruption of endosperm development is a major cause of hybrid seed inviability between Mimulus guttatus and Mimulus nudatus. 
  • Dissecting the architecture of a quantitative trait locus in yeast. 
  • Ecological divergence associated with mating system causes nearly complete reproductive isolation between sympatric Mimulus species. 
  • Ecological reproductive isolation of coast and inland races of Mimulus guttatus. 
  • Epistasis modifies the dominance of loci causing hybrid male sterility in the Drosophila pseudoobscura species group. 
  • Evidence for Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilites contributing to the sterility of hybrids between Mimulus guttatus and M. nasutus. 
  • Evidence for a novel hybrid immunotoxin recognizing ricin A-chain by one antigen-combining site and a prostate-restricted antigen by the remaining antigen-combining site: potential for immunotherapy. 
  • Evidence for selection at multiple allozyme loci across a mussel hybrid zone. 
  • Evolutionary biology: Genes to make new species. 
  • Evolutionary genetics: jumping into a new species. 
  • Extensive chloroplast haplotype variation indicates Pleistocene hybridization and radiation of North American Arabis drummondii, A. x divaricarpa, and A. holboellii (Brassicaceae). 
  • Factors enforcing the species boundary between the human pathogens Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus deneoformans. 
  • Formalizing morphologically cryptic biological entities: new insights from DNA taxonomy, hybridization, and biogeography in the leafy liverwort Porella platyphylla (Jungermanniopsida, Porellales). 
  • Gene transposition as a cause of hybrid sterility in Drosophila. 
  • Genes, geology and germs: gut microbiota across a primate hybrid zone are explained by site soil properties, not host species. 
  • Genetic divergence causes parallel evolution of flower color in Chilean Mimulus. 
  • Genetic evidence for hybridization in red oaks (Quercus sect. Lobatae, Fagaceae). 
  • Genetic evidence reveals temporal change in hybridization patterns in a wild baboon population. 
  • Genetic structure in a dynamic baboon hybrid zone corroborates behavioural observations in a hybrid population. 
  • Genetics of hybrid male sterility among strains and species in the Drosophila pseudoobscura species group. 
  • Genetics. Origin of species in overdrive. 
  • Genome-wide architecture of reproductive isolation in a naturally occurring hybrid zone between Mus musculus musculus and M. m. domesticus. 
  • Genome-wide patterns of expression in Drosophila pure species and hybrid males. II. Examination of multiple-species hybridizations, platforms, and life cycle stages. 
  • Genomewide ancestry and divergence patterns from low-coverage sequencing data reveal a complex history of admixture in wild baboons. 
  • Geographical variation in postzygotic isolation and its genetic basis within and between two Mimulus species. 
  • Global distribution, diversity hot spots and niche transitions of an astaxanthin-producing eukaryotic microbe. 
  • Heterochronic meiotic misexpression in an interspecific yeast hybrid. 
  • Hormonal regulation of a chicken oviduct messenger ribonucleic acid that shares a common domain with gizzard myosin light chain kinase. 
  • Human disturbance causes the formation of a hybrid swarm between two naturally sympatric fish species. 
  • Hybrid inviability and differential submergence tolerance drive habitat segregation between two congeneric monkeyflowers. 
  • Hybrid transgenic mice reveal in vivo specificity of G protein-coupled receptor kinases in the heart. 
  • Hybridization can facilitate species invasions, even without enhancing local adaptation. 
  • Hybridization in postglacial marine habitats. 
  • Identification of two genes causing reinforcement in the Texas wildflower Phlox drummondii. 
  • Immigration and hybridization patterns of yellow and anubis baboons in and around Amboseli, Kenya. 
  • Impact of mating type, serotype, and ploidy on the virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Individual variation in inbreeding depression: the roles of inbreeding history and mutation. 
  • Interploidal hybridization and mating patterns in the Sphagnum subsecundum complex. 
  • Investigation of the basis of virulence in serotype A strains of Cryptococcus neoformans from apparently immunocompetent individuals. 
  • Limited hybridization across an edaphic disjunction between the gabbro-endemic shrub Ceanothus roderickii (Rhamnaceae) and the soil-generalist Ceanothus cuneatus. 
  • Local adaptation and species segregation in two mussel (Mytilus edulis x Mytilus trossulus) hybrid zones. 
  • Many globally isolated AD hybrid strains of Cryptococcus neoformans originated in Africa. 
  • Mapping of within-species segregation distortion in Drosophila persimilis and hybrid sterility between D. persimilis and D. pseudoobscura. 
  • Measures of linkage disequilibrium among neighbouring SNPs indicate asymmetries across the house mouse hybrid zone. 
  • Mice transgenic for a vasopressin-SV40 hybrid oncogene develop tumors of the endocrine pancreas and the anterior pituitary. A possible model for human multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1. 
  • Multilocus test for introgression between the cactophilic species Drosophila mojavensis and Drosophila arizonae. 
  • Natural hybridization between genera that diverged from each other approximately 60 million years ago 
  • Natural variation for a hybrid incompatibility between two species of Mimulus. 
  • Next‐generation polyploid phylogenetics: Rapid resolution of hybrid polyploid complexes using PacBio single‐molecule sequencing 
  • Nucleotide sequence, expression, and chromosomal mapping of Mrp and mapping of five related sequences. 
  • On ribosomal gene compensation in Drosophila. 
  • On the origin and evolution of apomixis in Boechera 
  • Patterns of Hybrid Seed Inviability in the Mimulus guttatus sp. Complex Reveal a Potential Role of Parental Conflict in Reproductive Isolation. 
  • Patterns of nucleotide diversity in two species of Mimulus are affected by mating system and asymmetric introgression. 
  • Patterns of nucleotide variation and reproductive isolation between a Mimulus allotetraploid and its progenitor species. 
  • Plant speciation. 
  • Pollinator-mediated selection on flower color allele drives reinforcement. 
  • Quantitative models of hybrid dysgenesis: rapid evolution under transposition, extrachromosomal inheritance, and fertility selection. 
  • RADseq Data Suggest Occasional Hybridization between Microcebus murinus and M. ravelobensis in Northwestern Madagascar. 
  • RADseq data reveal a lack of admixture in a mouse lemur contact zone contrary to previous microsatellite results. 
  • Recent evolution of the human pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans by intervarietal transfer of a 14-gene fragment. 
  • Recombination and the divergence of hybridizing species. 
  • Recombination-Aware Phylogenomics Reveals the Structured Genomic Landscape of Hybridizing Cat Species. 
  • Ribosomal RNA in avian leukosis virus particles. 
  • Salmonella typhimurium SA host specificity system is based on deoxyribonucleic acid-adenine methylation. 
  • Selection against admixture and gene regulatory divergence in a long-term primate field study. 
  • Sex-specific incompatibility generates locus-specific rates of introgression between species. 
  • Speciation driven by natural selection in Drosophila. 
  • Speciation on a local geographic scale: the evolution of a rare rock outcrop specialist in Mimulus. 
  • Specificity of cell adhesion: differences between normal and hybrid sea urchin cells. 
  • The Evolution of Sex is Tempered by Costly Hybridization in Boechera (Rock Cress). 
  • The Hybrid Mouse Diversity Panel: a resource for systems genetics analyses of metabolic and cardiovascular traits. 
  • The comparative genomics and complex population history of Papio baboons. 
  • The genetic basis of developmental abnormalities in interpopulation hybrids of the moss Ceratodon purpureus. 
  • The genomic consequences of adaptive divergence and reproductive isolation between species of manakins. 
  • The new biology of drug receptors. 
  • Transgenic tubular cell expression of class II is insufficient to initiate immune renal injury. 
  • Transmission of Hypervirulence traits via sexual reproduction within and between lineages of the human fungal pathogen cryptococcus gattii. 
  • Transmission ratio distortion in intraspecific hybrids of Mimulus guttatus: implications for genomic divergence. 
  • Uniocular vascular occlusion in a paraplegic hybrid monkey. A clinicopathologic study. 
  • Variability on the dot chromosome in the Drosophila simulans clade. 
  • Velocity differences between L- and P-selectin-dependent neutrophil rolling in venules of mouse cremaster muscle in vivo. 
  • What's good for you may be good for me: evidence for adaptive introgression of multiple traits in wild sunflower. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Alberts, Susan C., Robert F. Durden Distinguished Professor of Biology, Duke Science & Society
  • Mitchell-Olds, Thomas, Newman Ivey White Distinguished Professor of Biology, Biology
  • Tung, Jenny, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke Science & Society