Natural selection maintains species despite widespread hybridization in the desert shrub Encelia
C. D. DiVittorio, S. Singhal, A. Roddy, F. Zapata, D. D. Ackerly, B. G. Baldwin, C. R. Brodersen, A. Burquez, P. V. Fine, M. Padilla Flores, E. Solis, J. Morales-Villavicencio, D. Morales-Arce, D. W. Kyhos
The paper investigates how natural selection maintains species boundaries in hybridizing desert shrubs, identifying ecological mechanisms that counteract gene flow.
bioRxiv · Jan 23, 2020Evolutionary Biology