Hybrid zones have been viewed as an opportunity to see speciation in action. When hybrid zones are replicated, it is assumed that if the same genetic incompatibilities are maintaining reproductive isolation across all instances of secondary contact, those incompatibilities should be identifiable by consistent patterns in the genome. In contrast, changes in allele frequencies due to genetic drift should be idiosyncratic for each hybrid zone.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe concept of a core microbiome has been broadly used to refer to the consistent presence of a set of taxa across multiple samples within a given habitat. The assignment of taxa to core microbiomes can be performed by several methods based on the abundance and occupancy (i.e.
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