Abstract:Invasive species present one of the greatest threats to the conservation of biodiversity. When invasives hybridize with endangered native taxa, they introduce novel challenges ranging from the identification of hybrids in the field, to hybrid vigor and the erosion of species identity as genotypes are lost. Across a large swath of central California, a hybrid swarm consisting of admixed endangered California tiger salamanders (CTS, Ambystoma californiense) and introduced barred tiger salamander (Ambystoma mavor… Show more
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