When Three Species Combine: Multi-Species Hybrids

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Skillshare is offering SciShow viewers two months of unlimited access to Skillshare for free! https://skl.sh/scishow-13 Hybrid organisms are rare, and most end up sterile, like mules. But sometimes, three or more species come together to create multi-species hybrids, and they can and have been really useful. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Greg, Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/hybrid-incompatibility-and-speciation-820 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0557 https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/genomicresearch/snp https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ggs/89/5/89_215/_html https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/for-plants-polyploidy-is-not-a-four-letter-word/ http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/149/1/63 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3899836/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2817252/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5808807/ https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/07/140717-wheat-genome-bread-crop-science/ http://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6194/1250092 Images: http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-donkey-in-desert/654676932 http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-two-horses-on-paddock/154321224 http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-mules-carry-loads-of-timber/969539326 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/185318.php?from=411570 http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-northern-parula/486190418 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/185319.php?from=411570 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/185320.php?from=411570 http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-blackburnian-warbler/472144623 http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-orange-crowned-warbler/475020016 http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-loup-gris-grey-wolf/968809406 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USA-satellite.jpg http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-north-american-coyote/178731641 http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-desert-coyote-watching-you/625943418 http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-north-american-coyote/178731641 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coywolf_hybrids.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coyote-face-snow_-_Virginia_-_ForestWander.jpg http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-urban-coyote/509346262 http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-wheat-in-early-sunlight/482460162 http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-wheat-and-flour/583991836 http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-grey-emmer/156204368 http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-wheat/153491296 http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-golden-wheat-field-and-sunny-day/465887590 http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-dried-wheat-ear/529055160 http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-illustration-football-or-soccer-match-statistics/542717126
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