All varieties intercross freely, and also hybridise with wild Raphanus spp. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 27] Reference
The tie in question was an attempt to hybridise the respective colour-schemes of a tartan plaid and a Neapolitan ice. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914] Reference
Among phocid pinnipeds, Phoca and Cystophora have been reported to hybridise, but again are from different 'subfamilies'. From Wordnik.com. [The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas] Reference
The Australian scincids Egernia and Tiliqua, which have been separated for over 20 million years (as demonstrated by fossils) can still hybridise. From Wordnik.com. [The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas] Reference
Among pinnipeds, sealions belonging to Arctocephalus and Zalophus often hybridise, but they are well apart in phylogenies, and have traditionally even been grouped in separate subfamilies. From Wordnik.com. [The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas] Reference
My feeling is that behaviour and ecology stops hybridisation occuring as much as it otherwise might: among us hominids for example, there are reasons for thinking that chimps and gorillas can hybridise, and even that humans can hybridise with chimps. From Wordnik.com. [The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas] Reference
The two may also co-infect pigs and hybridise there. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabist] Reference
A propensity to self-seed and hybridise complicates matters. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
There are about 100 species of phlomis, but they hybridise in the wild and naming can be difficult. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
It's a problem founded again, we suspect, on the contradictory demands of the genres Insomniac is trying to hybridise. From Wordnik.com. [Kikizo.com Video Games Website XML Feed] Reference
They found that when species hybridise, some of the variation in gene activity may be cancelled out, leading to greater vigour. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Several years ago Dennis Hedgecock of the University of Southern California and his colleagues discovered that oysters can hybridise. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference
Furthermore, when two yeasts hybridise the clocks appear to re-set, apparently overwriting each others 'rhythm and eliminating unwanted variations on the theme. From Wordnik.com. [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference
It is very curious that the two forms of the same species (pages 93, 94, 95, and 117) hybridise with extremely different degrees of facility with distinct species. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
While the various populations around this circuit differ from one another, they intergrade, and it is clear that adjacent, neighbouring populations regularly hybridise. From Wordnik.com. [remote central] Reference
"I believe you would not have got on very well in the Garden of Eden, except that, since all the herbs grew after their own kind, there would be no opportunity to hybridise them.". From Wordnik.com. [The Good Comrade] Reference
In this study we extend the sample size of prior studies in birds for cox1 (2776 sequences, 756 species) and target especially species that are known to occur parapatrically, and / or are known to hybridise, on a Holarctic scale. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
"He is multiplying it at present; at first he had only one, now, of course, he has a few more; when he has got enough he will hybridise. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Comrade] Reference
I managed to track down this paper, which apparently provides a thorough discussion of why it’s valid to say that the ends of the ring don’t hybridise. From Wordnik.com. [Javison Does Chimpanzees? « UDreamOfJanie] Reference
It’s one of the better attempts to hybridise the vampire and police genres—which Angel didn’t do so well—but only because the ‘police’ are vampires. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference
Maybe it’s only one of these subspecies that can routinely hybridise with C. elephus, and if this is so, then maybe that’s the subspecies that is doing the hybridisation in Scotland and Ireland. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
Has been known to hybridise with native resident. From Wordnik.com. [A Guide to the Birds of East Africa: Summary and book reviews of A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson.] Reference
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