hybridization
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Harrison then made California a principal originator of the hybridization of Eastern and Western music.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025
Their analysis revealed that almost two-thirds of breed dogs retain wolf ancestry within their nuclear genome from hybridization events that occurred around 1,000 generations ago.
From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2025
Czechoslovakian and Saarloos wolfdogs, intentionally bred through wolf-dog hybridization, had the highest wolf ancestry levels at 23-40 percent.
From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2025
“It’s part of this paradigm shift of appreciating that hybridization can be a constructive process,” says Chris Jiggins, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Cambridge who was not involved in the study.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 17, 2024
As a Ph.D. student, he’d used HeLa to help develop something called fluorescence in situ hybridization, otherwise known as FISH, a technique for painting chromosomes with multicolored fluorescent dyes that shine bright under ultraviolet light.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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