Hybridization has many and varied impacts on the process of speciation. Hybridization may
slow or reverse differentiation by allowing gene flow and recombination. It may accelerate …

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

Homoploid hybrid speciation in animals has been inferred frequently from patterns of
variation, but few examples have withstood critical scrutiny. Here we report a directly …

Species can be defined as populations that are diagnosably distinct, reproductively isolated,
cohesive, or exclusive groups of organisms. Boundaries between species in sympatry are …

A two-marker combination of plastid rbcL and matK has previously been recommended as
the core plant barcode, to be supplemented with additional markers such as plastid trnH …

Hybridization has long been considered a process that prevents divergence between
species. In contrast to this historical view, an increasing number of empirical studies claim to …

Although species can arise through hybridization, compelling evidence for hybrid speciation
has been reported only rarely in animals. Here, we present phylogenomic analyses on …

Abstract Patchouli (Pogostemon cablin (Blanco) Benth.), a member of the Lamiaceae family,
is an important aromatic plant that has been widely used in medicine and perfumery. Here …

Root-knot nematodes (genus Meloidogyne) exhibit a diversity of reproductive modes
ranging from obligatory sexual to fully asexual reproduction. Intriguingly, the most …

Hybridization has a major role in evolution—from the introgression of important phenotypic
traits between species, to the creation of new species through hybrid speciation. Molecular …