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
These results are again most readily explained by introgression and fixation of mimicry genes.
From Nature ● Jul. 4, 2012
Our genome-scale analysis provides considerably greater power than previous tests of introgression.
From Nature ● Jul. 4, 2012
Here we use genomic tools to investigate introgression in Heliconius, a rapidly radiating genus of neotropical butterflies widely used in studies of ecology, behaviour, mimicry and speciation.
From Nature ● Jul. 4, 2012
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