{"id":150802,"date":"2022-11-22T14:24:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T20:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-discover-a-new-way-to-make-species"},"modified":"2022-11-22T14:24:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T20:24:25","slug":"scientists-discover-a-new-way-to-make-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-discover-a-new-way-to-make-species","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover a New Way To Make Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-a-new-way-to-make-species2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The evolution of a new species by hybridization of two previously described species with no change in chromosomal number is very unusual in the animal world. So far, only a few empirically acknowledged cases of this spontaneous mode of evolution (from one generation to the next) known as homoploid hybridization exist.<\/p>\n<p>A study led by Axel Meyer, Professor of Zoology and Evolutionary Biology at the <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-konstanz\/>University of Konstanz<\/a>, has successfully demonstrated the emergence of a new hybrid species in cichlid fishes. This is likely the first instance of this genetic speciation method in vertebrates. The researchers reveal that a new hybrid species has emerged from the cichlid <em>A. sagittae<\/em> and <em>A. xiloaensis<\/em> in the crater lake Xilo\u00e1 in Nicaragua using whole genome sequencing of more than 120 individuals as well as a number of other techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings were recently published in the journal <em> Nature Communications.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evolution of a new species by hybridization of two previously described species with no change in chromosomal number is very unusual in the animal world. So far, only a few empirically acknowledged cases of this spontaneous mode of evolution (from one generation to the next) known as homoploid hybridization exist. A study led by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}