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

Adaptive introgression of mimicry loci is therefore a plausible explanation for parallel evolution of multiple mimetic patterns in the –silvaniform clade.

From Nature • Jul. 4, 2012

These results are again most readily explained by introgression and fixation of mimicry genes.

From Nature • Jul. 4, 2012

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