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Hybridization in postglacial marine habitats.

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Riginos, C; Cunningham, CW
Published in: Molecular ecology
October 2007

Within the last few million years, repeated invasions from the North Pacific have brought evolutionarily divergent lineages of Macoma balthica clams into contact in the marginal and inland seas of northern Europe (Strelkov et al. 2007). These divergent M. balthica lineages now co-occur and hybridize extensively, blurring the distinction between the lineages and with some populations best described as 'hybrid swarms'. This scenario matches the prediction that hybridization between distinct genetic entities can generate evolutionary novelty, particularly in new environments where hybrid fitness is equal to or exceeds parental types (Arnold 1997; Seehausen 2004).

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Molecular ecology

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1365-294X

ISSN

0962-1083

Publication Date

October 2007

Volume

16

Issue

19

Start / End Page

3971 / 3972

Related Subject Headings

  • Population Dynamics
  • Oceans and Seas
  • Hybridization, Genetic
  • Hybrid Vigor
  • Gene Flow
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Bivalvia
  • Biological Evolution
  • Animals
  • Animal Migration
 

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Riginos, C., & Cunningham, C. W. (2007). Hybridization in postglacial marine habitats. Molecular Ecology, 16(19), 3971–3972. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2007.03505.x
Riginos, Cynthia, and Clifford W. Cunningham. “Hybridization in postglacial marine habitats.Molecular Ecology 16, no. 19 (October 2007): 3971–72. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2007.03505.x.
Riginos C, Cunningham CW. Hybridization in postglacial marine habitats. Molecular ecology. 2007 Oct;16(19):3971–2.
Riginos, Cynthia, and Clifford W. Cunningham. “Hybridization in postglacial marine habitats.Molecular Ecology, vol. 16, no. 19, Oct. 2007, pp. 3971–72. Epmc, doi:10.1111/j.1365-294x.2007.03505.x.
Riginos C, Cunningham CW. Hybridization in postglacial marine habitats. Molecular ecology. 2007 Oct;16(19):3971–3972.
Journal cover image

Published In

Molecular ecology

DOI

EISSN

1365-294X

ISSN

0962-1083

Publication Date

October 2007

Volume

16

Issue

19

Start / End Page

3971 / 3972

Related Subject Headings

  • Population Dynamics
  • Oceans and Seas
  • Hybridization, Genetic
  • Hybrid Vigor
  • Gene Flow
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Bivalvia
  • Biological Evolution
  • Animals
  • Animal Migration