The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) is the highest and one of the most extensive plateaus in
the world. Phylogenetic, phylogeographic, and ecological studies support plant …

It has long been recognized that hybridization and polyploidy are prominent processes in
plant evolution. Although classically recognized as significant in speciation and adaptation …

The Hengduan Mountains region (HDM) in southwest China, one of the earth's 34
biodiversity hotspots, is characterized by its unique geology, dramatic topography, a climate …

Even before the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, the perception of evolutionary
change has been a tree-like pattern of diversification-with divergent branches spreading …

Our understanding of homoploid hybrid speciation has advanced substantially since this
mechanism of species formation was codified 50 years ago. Early theory and research …

2014; Grant and Grant, 2015; Abbott et al., 2016; Pennisi, 2016). Homoploid hybrid
speciation (HHS) is the formation of a newhybrid—species, independent from its parents, via …

While homoploid hybridization was viewed as maladaptive by zoologists, the possibility that
it might play a creative role in evolution was explored and debated by botanists during the …

As the highest and largest plateau in the world, the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, with its numerous
endemic species, is one of the important alpine biodiversity hotspots. Only recently have the …

Homoploid hybrid speciation is the origin of a hybrid species without change in chromosome
number. Although currently thought to be a rare form of speciation, especially relative to the …

The study of genetic exchange resulting from natural hybridization, horizontal gene transfer,
and viral recombination has long been marked by controversy between researchers holding …