Abstract

Species and populations may adapt to climate change by microevolutionary processes. However, standing genetic variation can be insufficient for this to occur. An interesting new study of a system of rainbowfish species shows that intraspecific hybridization enriches gene pools with adaptive variation that may allow persistence in a changing climate.

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