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Join Date: Nov 2008
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When a Hybrid Takes Hold, the Outcome Can Be Bad
By Henry Fountain Published: June 29, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/sc...=1&ref=science excerpt from above: Quote:
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Unicellular Fungi
Join Date: Nov 2008
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We really should be standing up and paying more attention to the ecological effects when hybridization occurs in animals.
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"In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; we will understand only what we have been taught." -Baba Dioum, Senegalese ecologist |
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Join Date: Nov 2008
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Invasive Salamander Carries on Endangered Genes While Killing off Natives
Invasive Salamander Carries on Endangered Genes While Killing off Natives | 80beats | Discover Magazine excerpts from above: Quote:
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Invasive hybrid tiger salamander genotypes impact native amphibians ? PNAS
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1st Place Winner Winner Butterfly/Moth Contest & Official Ant Man
Join Date: May 2009
Location: New Jersey
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On the topic of Hybrids; when I was at the Mt. Cuba Center in DE, earlier this year, they pointed out some Trilliums that have hybridized with other species. If I recall correctly they have some 19 Trilliums growing there, and it was neat to see so many of them.
Pictured here is either T. flexipes or T. simile which is never red, and yet it has mixed features of other red trilliums growing around it. |
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Official Plant Nerd
Join Date: Dec 2008
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"The question of what to do about the hybrid and its hungry, hungry ways poses an ethical quandary for conservationists" I don't know any conservationists in an ethical quandry over the hybrid. It's a hybrid and it's not a naturally occurring hybrid. Do what ever it takes to stop its spread before it wreaks more havoc.
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