Something odd or even common? Genotypes of Fucus vesiculosus/spiralis associate with depth on a cm scale. And a third of the biomass in the upper Fucus belt is a sterile hybrid.
Are hybrids now ecologically important?
See our new paper in Ecology and Evolution
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Hybridisation as an Ecological Process: Admixed Individuals Contribute Substantially to Canopy Biomass in an Intertidal Macroalgal Hybrid Zone
On sheltered shores of the Swedish west coast, the canopy-forming seaweeds Fucus spiralis and F. vesiculosus meet across an intertidal gradient only tens of centimetres wide. Genome-wide data resolve....
