Sentences with phrase «co-adapted gene complexes»

Hybridization can reduce fitness by either introducing alleles to a population that are not suited to the local environment (extrinsic outbreeding depression) or disrupting co-adapted gene complexes (intrinsic outbreeding depression)(Templeton 1986).

A major consequence of such interspecific hybridization may be outbreeding depression due to the break - up of co-adapted gene complexes and disruption of local adaptations (Barton & Hewitt 1989).