introgression

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“It made sense that introgression from mexicana was important for adaptation to the highlands,” says Maud Tenaillon, a population geneticist who studies maize at CNRS, France’s national research agency, and Paris-Saclay University.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 29, 2023

EPA regulators agreed that what the Yale scientists had found — the transfer of DNA from the corporate-created mosquitoes to the wild population, which is called introgression — was a concern.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2022

Gene genealogies at a small number of loci indicate introgression between species, and one non-mimetic species, Heliconius heurippa, has a hybrid origin.

From Nature • Jul. 4, 2012

The Heliconius reference genome allowed us to perform rigorous tests for introgression among melpomene–silvaniform clade species.

From Nature • Jul. 4, 2012

Although it was long suspected that introgression might be important in evolutionary radiations, our results from the most diverse terrestrial biome on the planet suggest that adaptive introgression is more pervasive than previously realized.

From Nature • Jul. 4, 2012