🧬🌱Did you know that when plants combine #DNA from two different species (like cotton), scientists once thought the DNA would frequently “mix and swap” between them? Justin Conover and co-researchers found that this is actually rare. In most cases, the DNA stays the same, suggesting earlier methods may have overestimated this mixing. Learn more from their dataset & article at https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.24512896 & https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16386. Image: Conover et al. (2024) CC BY 4.0 #Opendata #OpenScience #Genetics