Article: High survival of Darwin's finch hybrids: effects of break morphology and diets.

INTRODUCTION

Hybridization can have significant ecological and evolutionary consequences for the species that inter-breed and for others that interact with them (Harrison 1990, 1993, Arnold 1992, Floate et al. 1993). In plants and animals, there are many examples in which a few members of a population interbreed with individuals of a closely related species, and gene flow occurs through backcrossing to one or both of the parental species. Occasionally, new species are formed by hybridization, but more often the genetic and ecological characteristics of the interbreeding species are transformed to varying degrees. Some of these examples occur naturally, others occur ...

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