Questions tagged [hybridization]
The crossbreeding of organisms of distinct varieties (breeds, species, etc) by sexual reproduction.
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Are epicanthic folds a dominant trait?
My state (Tripura) originally had a mostly mongoloid-feature-possessing population (ethnic group: Tripuri). Recently a large number of non-mongoloid people (ethnic group: Bengali) have migrated to ...
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Genetic differences between Africans and non-Africans due to cross-breeding with Neanderthals?
It is estimated that soon after the "out of Africa event" there was some interbreeding between Homo sapiens sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis. All non-African peoples are thought to have ...
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What are haplotype blocks and what is the effect of hybridization on these?
In this PDF, there is a quick definition of haplotype blocks.
A haplotype block is a set of closely linked alleles/markers on a
chromosome that, over evolutionary time, tend to be inherited
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Partial Contribution By One Parent
For flowering plants, what might cause the genome size of offspring from a cross between 2 diploid parent of differing genome size to reflect only a partial contribution by the larger genome size ...
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How related do life forms need to be to produce hybrids?
Specifically, I'm asking about infertile hybrids like ligers, mules, camas, etc. How closely related do animals need to be?
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Help identifying a bug which looks like a housefly and mosquito hybrid
I'm from Kochi, India (southern part of India). I found this bug inside my house , it was about a centimeter long . But how can such an hybrid be possible. (It was raining before I found it).
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Why are some bird hybrids fertile?
So, we all know that hybrids are infertile, that's the definition of a species, but how come some parrot species can interbreed and still be fertile. For instance a military macaw and a blue and gold ...
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Standard notation for crossings (female, male)
Is there any standard for the notation of a crossing (hybrid) which tells me which part is the mother and which is the father?
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StrainA: egg cell
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