In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, an “unusually large hybridization event” unfolded between local wild boar and escaped domestic pigs. Within just a few years, the genetics of the two ...
A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when escaped domestic pigs bred with wild boar. The research shows that domestic pig ...
A wild boar with visible traits linked to domestic pig ancestry in Fukushima’s evacuation zone. After the 2011 nuclear accident, escaped pigs interbred with wild boar, creating a rare hybridization ...