{"id":27,"date":"2013-09-16T19:15:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T19:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plant-evolution.org\/wp\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2013-10-06T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T11:57:07","slug":"genomeduplication","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/plant-evolution.org\/wp\/research\/genomeduplication\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybridisation and Genome Duplication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-87\">Monkey flower hybrids reveal rapid speciation in introduced species. <\/strong>Human transport of plants and animals around the globe, whether accidental or not, is homogeneising the world&#8217;s biota. Hybridisation among previously isolated species of monkey flowers (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mimulus\"><em>Mimulus<\/em> <\/a>spp.)\u00a0from opposite sides of the American continent, has produced an array of s<a href=\"http:\/\/plant-evolution.org\/Papers%20PDF\/Vallejo-Marin%20and%20Lye_Heredity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">terile plants that are naturalised and widespread in the United Kingdom<\/a>. Some of these hybrids have gone on to produce the most recent example of a new species evolving in the last 150 years: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pensoft.net\/inc\/journals\/download.php?fileId=4735&amp;fileTable=J_GALLEYS\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mimulus peregrinus<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>News coverage:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/nature\/20425468\">BBC<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/gallery_directory.cfm?photo_id=D6E27118-D589-32BD-83E205FC7C1B5D74\">Scientific American<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2012\/07\/120710120231.htm\"> Science Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monkey flower hybrids reveal rapid speciation in introduced species. Human transport of plants and animals around the globe, whether accidental or not, is homogeneising the world&#8217;s biota. Hybridisation among previously isolated species of monkey flowers (Mimulus spp.)\u00a0from opposite sides of the American continent, has produced an array of sterile plants that are naturalised and widespread &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plant-evolution.org\/wp\/research\/genomeduplication\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hybridisation and Genome Duplication&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87,"parent":21,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plant-evolution.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plant-evolution.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plant-evolution.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plant-evolution.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plant-evolution.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/plant-evolution.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/plant-evolution.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/96"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plant-evolution.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plant-evolution.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plant-evolution.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}