Hybrid speciation
Publication information:
Mallet, J. (2007). Hybrid speciation. Nature, 446, Article 7133. (Original work published 2007)
Abstract
Botanists have long believed that hybrid speciation is important, especially after chromosomal doubling (allopolyploidy). Until recently, hybridization was not thought to play a very constructive part in animal evolution. Now, new genetic evidence suggests that hybrid speciation, even without polyploidy, is more common in plants and also animals than we thought.