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Nature 441, 868-871 (15 June 2006) | doi:10.1038/nature04738;

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Speciation by hybridization in Heliconius butterflies

Speciation is generally regarded to result from the splitting of a single lineage. An alternative is hybrid speciation, considered to be extremely rare, in which two distinct lineages contribute genes to a daughter species.

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