hybridization
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Hybridization is used extensively in agriculture, where new forms of hardy and disease-resistant plants are produced commercially.
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The introduction of other Micropterus species outside their native ranges has increased the risk of hybridization.
From Science Daily • Mar. 23, 2026
Harrison then made California a principal originator of the hybridization of Eastern and Western music.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025
In short, hybridization with H. melpomene went beyond simply creating a population of H. pardalinus with different wing colors—it helped birth an entirely new, separate lineage, the authors say.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 17, 2024
The work contributes to a growing notion among evolutionary biologists that hybridization can sometimes increase, not decrease, the diversity of species within an ecosystem.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 17, 2024
In 1997 Mary W Eubanks, a Duke University biologist, resuscitated the hybridization theory in a new variant.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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