Landscape resistance constrains hybridization across contact zones in a reproductively and morphologically polymorphic salamander [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Explicitly accounting for phenotypic differentiation together with environmental heterogeneity is crucial to understand the evolutionary dynamics in hybrid zones.
Guillermo Velo-Antón +4 more
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Cooperative Stabilization of Close-Contact Zones Leads to Sensitivity and Selectivity in T-Cell Recognition [PDF]
Cells, 2021 T cells are sensitive to 1 to 10 foreign-peptide-MHC complexes among a vast majority of self-peptide-MHC complexes, and discriminate selectively between peptide-MHC complexes that differ not much in their binding affinity to T-cell receptors (TCRs ...
Bartosz Różycki, Thomas R. Weikl
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Local niches explain coexistence in environmentally-distinct contact zones between Western Mediterranean vipers [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Species’ ecological niches are frequently analysed to gain insights into how anthropogenic changes affect biodiversity. Coping with these changes often involves shifts in niche expression, which can disrupt local biotic interactions.
Inês Freitas +7 more
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Hybridization patterns in two contact zones of grass snakes reveal a new Central European snake species [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 Recent studies found major conflicts between traditional taxonomy and genetic differentiation of grass snakes and identified previously unknown secondary contact zones. Until now, little is known about gene flow across these contact zones.
Carolin Kindler +7 more
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Trait Variation and Spatiotemporal Dynamics across Avian Secondary Contact Zones [PDF]
BiologyA secondary contact zone (SCZ) is an area where incipient species or divergent populations may meet, mate, and hybridize. Due to the diverse patterns of interspecific hybridization, SCZs function as field labs for illuminating the on-going evolutionary ...
Shangyu Wang +10 more
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Molecular signatures of adaptive introgression and selection in contact zones of closely related pine species (Pinus genus) [PDF]
BMC Plant BiologyBackground Natural hybridization plays a key role in shaping genetic diversity, local adaptation, and the dynamics of speciation through interspecific gene flow. Hybrid zones serve as valuable natural systems for studying these processes.
Sebastian Szczepański +2 more
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Cultural centres: a future for cultural Arctic tourism? [PDF]
Journal of Tourism Futures, 2020 Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential of cultural centres to be spaces that foster interaction between tourists and locals, and thereby meet the demands of new cultural tourists.
Elizabeth Ann Cooper
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Hybridization as a biodiversity driver: The case of Veronica × gundisalvi
Mediterranean Botany, 2021 Hybridization is an important mechanism in plant evolution, which contributes to the adaptability and biological diversity of species in fundamental ways. Based on morphological data, Veronica × gundisalvi Sennen (Veronica orsiniana × V.
Noemí López-González +4 more
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Humanist Limits in the Material Phenomenology of Religion [PDF]
Journal for the Study of Religion, 2019 This article tracks a shared methodological tension within the work of a few classic phenomenologists, based on an epistemological juxtaposition at the heart of their enquiry.
Gaelin Meyer
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Interfaces, 2022 This essay explores the implications of using migration as a metaphor for adaptation. These implications become legally and morally fraught when adaptation is regarded not simply as migration but as emigration or immigration, two activities more narrowly
Thomas Leitch
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