Nucleic acid hybridization techniques offer a new approach to answer old, intractable questions in microbial ecology as well as new questions. These include characterization of the predominant, yet ...

No less than 500 new species of cichlids, brightly coloured perch-like fish, evolved in Lake Victoria (East Africa) over the past 15,000 years -- a record in the animal and plant world. This ...

Hybridization may counteract these effects through natural genetic rescue, helping prevent a population from reaching extinction thresholds," explain researchers Izquierdo-Arànega and Ferrer Obiol.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Experiments have been made intercrossing the nine species of Theobroma which occur in Amazonia. Most cross pollination gives no normally ...

University of California Berkeley researchers report that females of two jumping spider species prefer red ornamented males of Habronattus americanus, a pattern that drives interspecific mating with a ...

Now, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that hybridization between the Mediterranean shearwater and the Balearic shearwater—a seabird at critical risk of ...