The ecology of hybrid incompatibilities

KA Thompson, Y Brandvain… - Cold Spring …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Ecologically mediated selection against hybrids, caused by hybrid phenotypes fitting poorly
into available niches, is typically viewed as distinct from selection caused by epistatic …

Quantitative analyses of coupling in hybrid zones

TJ Firneno, G Semenov… - Cold Spring …, 2023 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
In hybrid zones, whether barrier loci experience selection mostly independently or as a unit
depends on the ratio of selection to recombination as captured by the coupling coefficient …

triangulaR: an R package for identifying AIMs and building triangle plots using SNP data from hybrid zones

BJ Wiens, JP Colella - BioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Hybridization provides a window into the speciation process and reshuffles parental alleles
to produce novel recombinant genotypes. The presence or absence of specific hybrid …

The spatial ecology of Mojave rattlesnakes (Crotalus scutulatus), prairie rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis), and their hybrids in southwestern New Mexico

DW Maag, YZ Francioli, TA Castoe… - Biological Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Hybridization between species provides unique opportunities to understand evolutionary
processes that are linked to reproductive isolation and, ultimately, speciation. However, the …

The best of both worlds? Rattlesnake hybrid zones generate complex combinations of divergent venom phenotypes that retain high toxicity

CF Smith, ZL Nikolakis, BW Perry, DR Schield, JM Meik… - Biochimie, 2023 - Elsevier
Studying the consequences of hybridization between closely related species with divergent
traits can reveal patterns of evolution that shape and maintain extreme trophic adaptations …

Hunting behavior and feeding ecology of Mojave rattlesnakes (Crotalus scutulatus), prairie rattlesnakes (Crotalus viridis), and their hybrids in southwestern New …

DW Maag, YZ Francioli, N Shaw, AY Soni… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Predators must contend with numerous challenges to successfully find and subjugate prey.
Complex traits related to hunting are partially controlled by a large number of co‐evolved …

Disentangling a genome-wide mosaic of conflicting phylogenetic signals in Western Rattlesnakes

JM Bernstein, YZ Francioli, DR Schield… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2025 - Elsevier
Species tree inference is often assumed to be more accurate as datasets increase in size,
with whole genomes representing the best-case-scenario for estimating a single, most-likely …

A Next Generation of Hierarchical Bayesian Analyses of Hybrid Zones Enables Model‐Based Quantification of Variation in Introgression in R

Z Gompert, DA DeRaad, CA Buerkle - Ecology and Evolution, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hybrid zones, where genetically distinct groups of organisms meet and interbreed, offer
valuable insights into the nature of species and speciation. Here, we present a new R …

A next generation of hierarchical Bayesian analyses of hybrid zones enables direct quantification of variation in introgression in R

Z Gompert, DA DeRaad, C Alex Buerkle - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Hybrid zones, where genetically distinct groups of organisms meet and interbreed, offer
valuable insights into the nature of species and speciation. Here, we present a new R …

Pelage variation and morphometrics of closely related Callithrix marmoset species and their hybrids

J Malukiewicz, K Warren, V Boere, ILC Bandeira… - BMC Ecology and …, 2024 - Springer
Background Hybrids are expected to show greater phenotypic variation than their parental
species, yet how hybrid phenotype expression varies with genetic distances in closely …