hybrid zone

collocation in English

meaningsofhybridandzone

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hybrid
adjective
uk
/ˈhaɪ.brɪd/us
/ˈhaɪ.brɪd/
combining two ...
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zone
noun[C]
uk
/zəʊn/us
/zoʊn/
an area, especially one that is different from the areas around it because it has different characteristics or is used for ...
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(Definition ofhybridandzonefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The reduction in mean fitness at the centre of ahybridzoneis a measure of the total selection acting.
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Once the data on metacentric frequency was collated for each collection site, characteristics of thehybridzonewere determined.
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In ahybridzone, they therefore contribute to decrease linkage disequilibria as well as the barrier to gene flow imposed by hybrid depression.
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Such selection of the fitter hybrid genotypes could scatter the clines that make up ahybridzone, invalidating inferences made assuming concordance.
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We also need to characterize the different t haplotype variants segregating in the natural populations on either side of thehybridzone.
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Predicting the shape of the selected clines, and hence mean fitness across thehybridzone, is more difficult, because it does depend on the genetic basis of fitness differences.
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If hybrid fitness were reduced by the separate effects of several independent sets of interacting genes, the average selection coefficient would not change so drastically across thehybridzone.
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The barrier to gene flow at neutral loci, which is reflected in distortion of neutral clines, is determined by the pattern of mean fitness across thehybridzone(23).
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Dispersal of individual parents leads to the creation of more hybrids within thehybridzone.
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It can occur across hybrid zones due to chance, selection orhybridzonemovement.
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These are less fertile than their parents, giving rise to ahybridzonewhere the hybrids are prevalent.
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However, blue mussel populations show extensive hybridisation worldwide and are a well studied example of a marinehybridzone.
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These processes lead to the formation of a cline between the two pure forms within thehybridzone.
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Where their ranges meet, the yellowhammer and pine bunting interbreed; the yellowhammer is dominant, and thehybridzoneis moving further east.
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In a tension zone there is the increased probability of hybridization between species of the separate zones and thus the tension zone may also be ahybridzone.
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