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Diagram illustrating how a male lion and female tiger produce a liger, which grows larger than either parent, while a male tiger and female lion produce a tigon, which is similar in size or smaller than its parents. Lions, tigers, ligers, and tigons are shown side by side with size and weight comparisons, and a scale bar at the bottom indicates 3 feet and 1 meter for reference.

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Plant Science - Understanding and overcoming hybrid lethality in seed and seedling stages as barriers to hybridization and gene flow.	Gloria Lotha	Aug 07, 2026
	Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Plant Science - Understanding and overcoming hybrid lethality in seed and seedling stages as barriers to hybridization and gene flow.	Aakanksha Gaur	Jan 11, 2025
	Add new Web site: Nature - Quantitative genetics of intraspecies hybrids.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 28, 2024
	Add new Web site: BMC - BMC Ecology and Evolution - Estimating ancestry and heterozygosity of hybrids using molecular markers.	Grace Young	Sep 07, 2024
	Add new Web site: Montana State University - The problems with hybrids: setting conservation guidelines.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 14, 2024
	Add new Web site: University of Illinois - College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences - Hybrids & Heirlooms.	Aakanksha Gaur	Nov 28, 2023
	Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - What, if anything, are hybrids: enduring truths and challenges associated with population structure and gene flow.	Grace Young	Oct 10, 2016
	Add new Web site: UCSB School University Partnership - In The field of Genetics, What Does it Mean a Trait and Hybrid?	Grace Young	Oct 10, 2016
	Media added.	Amy Tikkanen	Aug 07, 2009
	Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - Hybrid.	Shiveta Singh	Feb 09, 2009
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998