title: Research advances in animal distant hybridization.
abstract: Distant hybridization refers to crosses between two different species or higher-ranking taxa that enables interspecific genome transfer and leads to changes in phenotypes and genotypes of the resulting progeny. If progeny derived from distant hybridization are bisexual and fertile, they can form a hybrid lineage through self-mating, with major implications for evolutionary biology, genetics, and breeding. Here, we review and summarize the published literature, and present our results on fish distant hybridization. Relevant problems involving distant hybridization between orders, families, subfamilies, genera, and species of animals are introduced and discussed, with an additional focus on fish distant hybrid lineages, genetic variation, patterns, and applications. Our review serves as a useful reference for evolutionary biology research and animal genetic breeding.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Protein Chemistry and Fish Developmental Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, China.
authors.forename: ZhuoHui
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.forename: Chun
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: QinBo
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Yun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: ShaoJun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D005399:Fishes / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D006824:Hybridization, Genetic; D008297:Male