Congrats to PhD student Zach Nikolakis and other coauthors for their recent paper in Evolution that got the cover image, which is a hybrid rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus concolor X C. viridis) from Western Colorado.
Nikolakis, Z.L., D.R. Schield, A.K. Westfall, B.W. Perry, K.N. Ivey, R.W. Orton, N.R. Hales, R.H. Adams, J.M. Meik, J. Parker, C.F. Smith, Z. Gompert, S.P. Mackessy, and T.A. Castoe. 2022. Evidence that genomic incompatibilities and other multilocus processes impact hybrid fitness in a rattlesnake hybrid zone. Evolution. (DOI: 10.1111/evo.14612)
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