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
An in-depth investigation of the haplotype structure near the domestication sites will be critical for evaluating the direction of introgression.
From Nature ● Oct. 24, 2012
These results are again most readily explained by introgression and fixation of mimicry genes.
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
