Interspecific forced copulations generate most hybrids in broadly sympatric ducks

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  • who: Sievert Rohwer et al. from the Department of Biology and Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States have published the research: Interspecific forced copulations generate most hybrids in broadly sympatric ducks, in the Journal: PLOS ONE of 15/02/2022
  • what: As the authors show below, hybrids between ducks that breed sympatrically occur at a rate of about 1 in every 5,000 hunter-shot ducks from North America.
  • how: For the 127 hybrids in the expanded data set the authors used temporal and spatial fine-scale abundance estimates from . . .

     

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