A hybrid zone exists where the ranges of two interbreeding species or diverged intraspecific lineages meet and cross-fertilize. Hybrid zones can form in...

Other hybrid zones have formed between described species of plants and animals. From the point of view of genetics, several different kinds of hybrid can...

into one, reinforcement, the formation of a hybrid zone, and the formation of a new species through hybrid speciation. One of the two populations may go...

and even adaptive radiation. It can occur across hybrid zones due to chance, selection or hybrid zone movement. There is evidence that introgression is...

incompatibility hybrid inviability hybrid speciation hybrid sterility hybrid swarm hybrid zone A geographic area in which the ranges of two interbreeding...

have also been shown to partake in hybrid mating between its species and C.auratus (a sister species). In hybrid zones, both beetles live in close proximity...

followed by an eastern coyote expansion, creating the largest mammalian hybrid zone known. Extensive hunting of gray wolves over a period of 400 years caused...

Hybrid speciation is a form of speciation where hybridization between two different species leads to a new species, reproductively isolated from the parent...

fitness of early generation hybrids is reduced but non-zero, hybrid zones may emerge in the contact zone of the taxa. If hybrids are fertile, hybridization...

between species of the separate zones and thus the tension zone may also be a hybrid zone. Historically tension zones were entirely natural in origin...