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Chybicki IJ. NMπ 2.0: Software update to minimize the risk of false positives among determinants of reproductive success. Mol Ecol Resour 2023. [PMID: 36788731 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2022] [Revised: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 02/09/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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In plant populations, parentage analysis helps understand factors shaping individual reproductive success. However, estimating reproductive success determinants based on parentage counts requires decoupling the effects of individual fecundity and propagule dispersal. The neighbourhood model implemented in the NMπ software provides a standard solution for this problem based on the fixed-effects regression-like approach. Nonetheless, it has been recently shown that the method is prone to false discoveries when important fecundity determinants are omitted. To account for the unexplained variance in fecundity, the Bayesian approach was developed based on the new model (the hierarchical neighbourhood model; HNM). Here, I present the NMπ software update that allows the HNM approach to be used in the framework of a friendly interface. More importantly, the HNM approach is now made available for both dispersed (seedlings) and nondispersed (seeds with known mothers) progeny data. The Bayesian approach, among others, selects significant fecundity determinants, estimates the proportion of variance in reproductive potential explained by selected determinants (R2 ), and provides individual female and male fecundity values. Although the software was designed to handle microsatellite marker data, a solution is proposed for large sets of single nucleotide polymorphisms. The program can be run on Windows (using either a terminal or a graphical interface) as well as (using a terminal) on Linux, or macOS platforms. In any case, NMπ can utilize multicore processors to speed up the analysis. The updated package containing the code, the executable file, the user manual, and example data is available at https://www.ukw.edu.pl/pracownicy/plik/igor_chybicki/3694/.
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- Igor J Chybicki
- Department of Genetics, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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High gene flow through pollen partially compensates spatial limited gene flow by seeds for a Neotropical tree in forest conservation and restoration areas. CONSERV GENET 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s10592-021-01344-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Bohan DA, Schmucki R, Abay AT, Termansen M, Bane M, Charalabidis A, Cong RG, Derocles SA, Dorner Z, Forster M, Gibert C, Harrower C, Oudoire G, Therond O, Young J, Zalai M, Pocock MJ. Designing farmer-acceptable rotations that assure ecosystem service provision in the face of climate change. ADV ECOL RES 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2021.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Butcher CL, Rubin BY, Anderson SL, Lewis JD. Pollen dispersal patterns differ among sites for a wind-pollinated species and an insect-pollinated species. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2020; 107:1504-1517. [PMID: 33108685 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2020] [Accepted: 07/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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PREMISE Pollen dispersal, the main component of overall plant gene flow, generally decreases with increasing distance from the pollen source, but the pattern of this relationship may differ among sites. Although site-based differences in pollen dispersal may lead to over- or underestimation of gene flow, no studies have investigated pollen dispersal patterns among differing urban site types, despite the incongruent range of habitats in urban areas. METHODS We used paternity assignment to assess pollen dispersal patterns in a wind-pollinated species (waterhemp; Amaranthus tuberculatus) and in an insect-pollinated species (tomato; Solanum lycopersicum) in experimental arrays at four disparate sites (two roof-level sites, two ground-level sites) in the New York (New York, USA) metropolitan area. RESULTS The number of seeds or fruits, a proxy for the number of flowers pollinated, decreased with increasing distance from the pollen donors at all sites for both species. However, the mean number of Amaranthus tuberculatusseeds produced at a given distance differed two-fold among sites, while the slope of the relationship between Solanum lycopersicumfruit production and distance differed by a factor of four among sites. CONCLUSIONS Pollen dispersal patterns may differ substantially among sites, both in the amount of pollen dispersed at a given distance and in the proportional decrease in pollen dispersal with increasing distance, and these effects may act independently. Accordingly, the capacity of plant species to adapt to climate change and other selection pressures may be different from predictions based on pollen dispersal patterns at a single location.
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- Chelsea L Butcher
- Louis Calder Center - Biological Field Station, Fordham University, 31 Whippoorwill Road, Armonk, New York, 10504, USA
- Center for Urban Ecology, Fordham University, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, New York, 10458, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, New York, 10458, USA
- Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Northwood University, 4000 Whiting Drive, Midland, Michigan, 48640, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, New York, 10458, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, New York, 10458, USA
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- Louis Calder Center - Biological Field Station, Fordham University, 31 Whippoorwill Road, Armonk, New York, 10504, USA
- Center for Urban Ecology, Fordham University, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, New York, 10458, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, New York, 10458, USA
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Butcher CL, Rubin BY, Anderson SL, Nandula VK, Owen MDK, Gardner RG, Lewis JD. Combining rare alleles and grouped pollen donors to assign paternity in pollen dispersal studies. APPLICATIONS IN PLANT SCIENCES 2020; 8:e11330. [PMID: 32185121 PMCID: PMC7073328 DOI: 10.1002/aps3.11330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2019] [Accepted: 11/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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PREMISE Pollen dispersal plays a critical role in gene flow of seed plants. Most often, pollen dispersal is measured using paternity assignment. However, this approach can be time-consuming because it typically entails genotyping all pollen donors, receptors, and offspring at several molecular markers. METHODS We developed a faster, simpler protocol to track paternity, using pollen receptors and grouped pollen donors that possess rare alleles. We tested this approach using wind-pollinated Amaranthus tuberculatus and insect-pollinated Solanum lycopersicum. After screening potential markers for rare alleles, we grew both species in experimental arrays under field conditions. RESULTS All tested A. tuberculatus seeds and 97% of S. lycopersicum fruits could be assigned to the grouped pollen donors using each of two markers. From these results, we could infer paternity of untested offspring and assess pollen dispersal patterns in each array. DISCUSSION By combining rare alleles and grouped pollen donors, we could assess pollen dispersal for both species and across all arrays after genotyping a small number of pollen donors and a representative subset of offspring. While directly applicable to A. tuberculatus and S. lycopersicum, this approach could be used in other species to assess pollen dispersal under field conditions.
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- Chelsea L. Butcher
- Louis Calder Center, Biological Field StationFordham University31 Whippoorwill RoadArmonkNew York10504USA
- Center for Urban EcologyFordham University441 East Fordham RoadBronxNew York10458USA
- Department of Biological SciencesFordham University441 East Fordham RoadBronxNew York10458USA
- Department of Mathematics and Natural SciencesNorthwood University4000 Whiting DriveMidlandMichigan48640USA
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- Department of Biological SciencesFordham University441 East Fordham RoadBronxNew York10458USA
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- Department of Biological SciencesFordham University441 East Fordham RoadBronxNew York10458USA
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- Crop Production Systems Research Unit, Agricultural Research ServiceU.S. Department of Agriculture141 Experiment Station RoadStonevilleMississippi38776USA
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- Department of AgronomyIowa State University716 Farm House LaneAmesIowa50011USA
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- Department of Horticultural ScienceNorth Carolina State UniversityMountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center (MHCREC)455 Research DriveMills RiverNorth Carolina28759USA
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- Louis Calder Center, Biological Field StationFordham University31 Whippoorwill RoadArmonkNew York10504USA
- Center for Urban EcologyFordham University441 East Fordham RoadBronxNew York10458USA
- Department of Biological SciencesFordham University441 East Fordham RoadBronxNew York10458USA
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Nakanishi A, Takeuchi T, Ueno S, Nishimura N, Tomaru N. Spatial variation in bird pollination and its mitigating effects on the genetic diversity of pollen pools accepted by Camellia japonica trees within a population at a landscape level. Heredity (Edinb) 2019; 124:170-181. [PMID: 31485029 DOI: 10.1038/s41437-019-0262-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2019] [Revised: 08/10/2019] [Accepted: 08/12/2019] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Bird pollination can vary spatially in response to spatial fluctuations in flowering even within plant populations. In this study, we examined the hypothesis that the spatial variation in bird pollination may induce mitigating effects, which maintains or increases genetic diversity of pollen pools at local sites with low flowering densities. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed the landscape-level genetic effects within a population of Camellia japonica on the pollen pools accepted by individuals in two reproductive years by using genotypes at eight microsatellite loci of 1323 seeds from 19 seed parents. Regression analyses using the quadratic models of correlated paternity between pollen pools against spatial distances between the seed-parent pairs revealed not only local pollination but also some amount of long-distance pollen dispersal. The genetic diversity of pollen pools accepted by seed parents tended to be negatively related to the densities of flowering individuals near the seed parents during winter (when the effective pollination of C. japonica is mediated mostly by Zosterops japonica). We show that the low density of flowering individuals may induce the expansion of the foraging areas of Z. japonica and consequently increase the genetic diversity of pollen pools. This spatial variation in bird pollination may induce the mitigating effects on the C. japonica population. The comparisons between the two study years indicate that the overall pattern of bird pollination and the genetic effects described here, including the mitigating effects, may be stable over time.
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- Atsushi Nakanishi
- Hokkaido Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Forest Research and Management Organization, 7 Hitsujigaoka, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, 062-8516, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan.,Forestry Department, Saku Regional Development Bureau, Nagano Prefectural Government, 65-1 Atobe, Saku, Nagano, 385-0054, Japan
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- Department of Forest Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Forest Research and Management Organization, 1 Matsunosato, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8687, Japan
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- Faculty of Social and Information Studies, Gunma University, 4-2 Aramaki-machi, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8510, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan.
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Wide outcrossing provides functional connectivity for new and old Banksia populations within a fragmented landscape. Oecologia 2019; 190:255-268. [DOI: 10.1007/s00442-019-04387-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2018] [Accepted: 03/19/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Zhou J, Zimmer EA, Fenster CB, Dudash MR. Characterization of the mating system of a native perennial tetraploid herb, Silene stellata. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2018; 105:1643-1652. [PMID: 30276803 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2018] [Accepted: 07/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Nursery pollination systems can range from obligate to facultative. In a system where generalists provide substantial pollination service, an important question is whether the cost of seed predation outweighs the benefit provided by the nursery pollinator to cause the plant to evolve toward more generalized pollination. Using a facultative system native to North America, we tested whether nursery pollinator vs. strictly mutualistic generalists affect mating-system parameters of the host plant and explored the implications for long-term coevolution. METHODS We used paternity analyses with 11 microsatellite markers to characterize the mating system of Silene stellata when pollination service is primarily through the nursery pollinator Hadena ectypa and generalist moths. KEY RESULTS Our experimental population of S. stellata was predominantly outcrossing (average outcrossing rate t = 0.83), and mating-system parameters were similar between pollinator groups. We detected significant correlations in both selfing and outcrossed paternity at the fruit and maternal family level, corresponding to limited pollen dispersal (mean = 3.9 m). Among individuals, variation in anther-stigma separation was positively associated with outcrossing rate, which suggests the importance of herkogamy in preventing selfing. CONCLUSIONS Correlated paternity suggests that seeds from the same fruit and/or plants are sired by a limited number of pollen donors, resulting from low pollen dispersal and potential male-male competition. The similar mating-system parameters of the two pollinator groups suggest that selection for higher outcrossing in S. stellata is likely to be through floral design rather than through increased pollinator specialization with H. ectypa.
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- Juannan Zhou
- Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 11724, USA
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- Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, MRC 166, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 20013, USA
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- Department of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, 57007, USA
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- Department of Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, 57007, USA
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Araújo MRG, Melo Júnior AFD, Menezes EV, Brandão MM, Cota LG, Oliveira DAD, Royo VDA, Vieira FA. Fine-scale spatial genetic structure and gene flow in Acrocomia aculeata (Arecaceae): Analysis in an overlapping generation. BIOCHEM SYST ECOL 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bse.2017.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Suárez-Montes P, Chávez-Pesqueira M, Núñez-Farfán J. Life history and past demography maintain genetic structure, outcrossing rate, contemporary pollen gene flow of an understory herb in a highly fragmented rainforest. PeerJ 2016; 4:e2764. [PMID: 28028460 PMCID: PMC5183091 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2016] [Accepted: 11/06/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Theory predicts that habitat fragmentation, by reducing population size and increasing isolation among remnant populations, can alter their genetic diversity and structure. A cascade of effects is expected: genetic drift and inbreeding after a population bottleneck, changes in biotic interactions that may affect, as in the case of plants, pollen dynamics, mating system, reproductive success. The detection of the effects of contemporary habitat fragmentation on the genetic structure of populations are conditioned by the magnitude of change, given the few number of generations since the onset of fragmentation, especially for long-lived organisms. However, the present-day genetic structure of populations may bear the signature of past demography events. Here, we examine the effects of rainforest fragmentation on the genetic diversity, population structure, mating system (outcrossing rate), indirect gene flow and contemporary pollen dynamics in the understory herb Aphelandra aurantiaca. Also, we assessed its present-day genetic structure under different past demographic scenarios. METHODS Twelve populations of A. aurantiaca were sampled in large (4), medium (3), and small (5) forest fragments in the lowland tropical rainforest at Los Tuxtlas region. Variation at 11 microsatellite loci was assessed in 28-30 reproductive plants per population. In two medium- and two large-size fragments we estimated the density of reproductive plants, and the mating system by analyzing the progeny of different mother plants per population. RESULTS Despite prevailing habitat fragmentation, populations of A. aurantiaca possess high genetic variation (He = 0.61), weak genetic structure (Rst = 0.037), and slight inbreeding in small fragments. Effective population sizes (Ne ) were large, but slightly lower in small fragments. Migrants derive mostly from large and medium size fragments. Gene dispersal is highly restricted but long distance gene dispersal events were detected. Aphelandra aurantiaca shows a mixed mating system (tm = 0.81) and the outcrossing rate have not been affected by habitat fragmentation. A strong pollen pool structure was detected due to few effective pollen donors (Nep ) and low distance pollen movement, pointing that most plants received pollen from close neighbors. Past demographic fluctuations may have affected the present population genetic structure as Bayesian coalescent analysis revealed the signature of past population expansion, possibly during warmer conditions after the last glacial maximum. DISCUSSION Habitat fragmentation has not increased genetic differentiation or reduced genetic diversity of A. aurantiaca despite dozens of generations since the onset of fragmentation in the region of Los Tuxtlas. Instead, past population expansion is compatible with the lack of observed genetic structure. The predicted negative effects of rainforest fragmentation on genetic diversity and population structure of A. aurantiaca seem to have been buffered owing to its large effective populations and long-distance dispersal events. In particular, its mixed-mating system, mostly of outcrossing, suggests high efficiency of pollinators promoting connectivity and reducing inbreeding. However, some results point that the effects of fragmentation are underway, as two small fragments showed higher membership probabilities to their population of origin, suggesting genetic isolation. Our findings underscore the importance of fragment size to maintain genetic connectivity across the landscape.
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- Pilar Suárez-Montes
- Laboratory of Ecological Genetics and Evolution, Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico
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- Laboratory of Ecological Genetics and Evolution, Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico
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- Laboratory of Ecological Genetics and Evolution, Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico
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Cavallin EKS, Munhoz CBR, Harris SA, Villarroel D, Proença CEB. Influence of biological and social-historical variables on the time taken to describe an angiosperm. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2016; 103:1990-1999. [PMID: 27879262 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1600230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2016] [Accepted: 10/26/2016] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY By convention, scientific naming of angiosperm species began in 1753; it is estimated that 10-20% of species remain undescribed. To complete this task before rare, undescribed species go extinct, a better understanding of the description process is needed. The South American Cerrado biodiversity hotspot was considered a suitable model due to a high diversity of plants, habitats, and social history of species description. METHODS A randomized sample of 214 species (2% of the angiosperm flora) and 22 variables were analyzed using multivariate analyses and analysis of variance. KEY RESULTS Plants with wide global distributions, recorded from many areas, and above 2.6 m were described significantly earlier than narrowly distributed, uncommon species of smaller stature. The beginning of the career of the botanist who first collected the species was highly significant, with an average delay between first collection and description of 29 yr, and between type collection and description 19 yr; standard deviations were high and rose over time. Over a third of first collections were not cited in descriptions. Trends such as scientific specialization and decline of undescribed species were highlighted. Descriptions that involved potential collaboration between collectors and authors were significantly slower than those that did not. CONCLUSIONS Results support four recommendations to hasten discovery of new species: (1) preferential collecting of plants below 2.6 m, at least in the Cerrado; (2) access to undetermined material in herbaria; (3) fieldwork in areas where narrow-endemic species occur; (4) fieldwork by knowledgeable botanists followed by descriptive activity by the same.
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- Evelin K S Cavallin
- Departamento de Botânica, Universidade de Brasília, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Asa Norte, Postal Code 4457, CEP 70910-970, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Departamento de Botânica, Universidade de Brasília, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Asa Norte, Postal Code 4457, CEP 70910-970, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RB UK
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- Departamento de Botânica, Universidade de Brasília, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Asa Norte, Postal Code 4457, CEP 70910-970, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Departamento de Botânica, Universidade de Brasília, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Asa Norte, Postal Code 4457, CEP 70910-970, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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Guidugli MC, Nazareno AG, Feres JM, Contel EPB, Mestriner MA, Alzate-Marin AL. Small but not isolated: a population genetic survey of the tropical tree Cariniana estrellensis (Lecythidaceae) in a highly fragmented habitat. Heredity (Edinb) 2016; 116:339-47. [PMID: 26732014 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2015.108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2015] [Revised: 09/28/2015] [Accepted: 11/30/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Here, we explore the mating pattern and genetic structure of a tropical tree species, Cariniana estrellensis, in a small population in which progeny arrays (n=399), all adults (n=28) and all seedlings (n=39) were genotyped at nine highly informative microsatellite loci. From progeny arrays we were able to identify the source tree for at least 78% of pollination events. The gene immigration rates, mainly attributable to pollen, were high, varying from 23.5 to 53%. Although gene dispersal over long distance was observed, the effective gene dispersal distances within the small population were relatively short, with mean pollination distances varying from 69.9 to 146.9 m, and seed dispersal distances occurring up to a mean of 119.6 m. Mating system analyses showed that C. estrellensis is an allogamous species (tm=0.999), with both biparental inbreeding (tm-ts=-0.016) and selfing rates (s=0.001) that are not significantly different from zero. Even though the population is small, the presence of private alleles in both seedlings and progeny arrays and the elevated rates of gene immigration indicate that the C. estrellensis population is not genetically isolated. However, genetic diversity expressed by allelic richness was significantly lower in postfragmentation life stages. Although there was a loss of genetic diversity, indicating susceptibility of C. estrellensis to habitat fragmentation, no evidence of inbreeding or spatial genetic structure was observed across generations. Overall, C. estrellensis showed some resilience to negative genetic effects of habitat fragmentation, but conservation strategies are needed to preserve the remaining genetic diversity of this population.
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- M C Guidugli
- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Genética-Bloco B, Laboratório de Genética Vegetal, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.,Universidade de São Paulo, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética, Departamento de Genética, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Botânica, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Genética-Bloco B, Laboratório de Genética Vegetal, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.,Universidade de São Paulo, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética, Departamento de Genética, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Genética-Bloco B, Laboratório de Genética Vegetal, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.,Universidade de São Paulo, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética, Departamento de Genética, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Genética-Bloco B, Laboratório de Genética Vegetal, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Genética-Bloco B, Laboratório de Genética Vegetal, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.,Universidade de São Paulo, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética, Departamento de Genética, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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Tambarussi EV, Boshier D, Vencovsky R, Freitas MLM, Sebbenn AM. Paternity analysis reveals significant isolation and near neighbor pollen dispersal in small Cariniana legalis Mart. Kuntze populations in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Ecol Evol 2015; 5:5588-600. [PMID: 27069608 PMCID: PMC4813111 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2015] [Revised: 10/06/2015] [Accepted: 10/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Throughout the world, large trees are increasingly rare. Cariniana legalis is the tallest tree species of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, reaching up to 60 m in height. Due to extensive deforestation of the Atlantic Forest, remnant C. legalis populations are small and spatially isolated, requiring the development of strategies for their conservation. For in situ and ex situ genetic conservation to be effective, it is important to understand the levels and patterns of spatial genetic structure (SGS), and gene flow. We investigated SGS and pollen flow in three small, physically isolated C. legalis stands using microsatellite loci. We measured, mapped, and sampled all C. legalis trees in the three stands: 65 trees from Ibicatu population, 22 trees from MGI, and 4 trees from MGII. We also collected and genotyped 600 seeds from Ibicatu, 250 seeds from MGI, and 200 seeds from MGII. Significant SGS was detected in Ibicatu up to 150 m, but substantial levels of external pollen flow were also detected in Ibicatu (8%), although not in MGI (0.4%) or MGII (0%). Selfing was highest in MGII (18%), the smallest group of trees, compared to MGI (6.4%) and Ibicatu (6%). In MGI and MGII, there was a strong pattern of mating among near‐neighbors. Seed collection strategies for breeding, in situ and ex situ conservation and ecological restoration, must ensure collection from seed trees located at distances greater than 350 m and from several forest fragments.
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- Evandro V Tambarussi
- Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz" Universidade de São Paulo Av. Pádua Dias, 11 Caixa Postal 9 Piracicaba 13418-900 Brazil
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- Department of Plant Sciences South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3RB UK
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- Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz" Universidade de São Paulo Av. Pádua Dias, 11 Caixa Postal 9 Piracicaba 13418-900 Brazil
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Deacon NJ, Cavender-Bares J. Limited Pollen Dispersal Contributes to Population Genetic Structure but Not Local Adaptation in Quercus oleoides Forests of Costa Rica. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0138783. [PMID: 26407244 PMCID: PMC4583504 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2015] [Accepted: 09/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background Quercus oleoides Cham. and Schlect., tropical live oak, is a species of conservation importance in its southern range limit of northwestern Costa Rica. It occurs in high-density stands across a fragmented landscape spanning a contrasting elevation and precipitation gradient. We examined genetic diversity and spatial genetic structure in this geographically isolated and genetically distinct population. We characterized population genetic diversity at 11 nuclear microsatellite loci in 260 individuals from 13 sites. We monitored flowering time at 10 sites, and characterized the local environment in order to compare observed spatial genetic structure to hypotheses of isolation-by-distance and isolation-by-environment. Finally, we quantified pollen dispersal distances and tested for local adaptation through a reciprocal transplant experiment in order to experimentally address these hypotheses. Results High genetic diversity is maintained in the population and the genetic variation is significantly structured among sampled sites. We identified 5 distinct genetic clusters and average pollen dispersal predominately occurred over short distances. Differences among sites in flowering phenology and environmental factors, however, were not strictly associated with genetic differentiation. Growth and survival of upland and lowland progeny in their native and foreign environments was expected to exhibit evidence of local adaptation due to the more extreme dry season in the lowlands. Seedlings planted in the lowland garden experienced much higher mortality than seedlings in the upland garden, but we did not identify evidence for local adaptation. Conclusion Overall, this study indicates that the Costa Rican Q. oleoides population has a rich population genetic history. Despite environmental heterogeneity and habitat fragmentation, isolation-by-distance and isolation-by-environment alone do not explain spatial genetic structure. These results add to studies of genetic structure by examining a common, tropical tree over multiple habitats and provide information for managers of a successional forest in a protected area.
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- Nicholas John Deacon
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
- Plant Biological Sciences Graduate Program, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
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Turchetto C, Lima JS, Rodrigues DM, Bonatto SL, Freitas LB. Pollen dispersal and breeding structure in a hawkmoth-pollinated Pampa grasslands species Petunia axillaris (Solanaceae). ANNALS OF BOTANY 2015; 115:939-48. [PMID: 25808656 PMCID: PMC4407064 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcv025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2014] [Accepted: 02/03/2015] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS The evolution of selfing is one of the most common transitions in flowering plants, and this change in mating pattern has important systematic and ecological consequences because it often initiates reproductive isolation and speciation. Petunia axillaris (Solanaceae) includes three allopatric subspecies widely distributed in temperate South America that present different degrees of self-compatibity and incompatibility. One of these subspecies is co-distributed with P. exserta in a restricted area and presents a complex, not well-understood mating system. Artificial crossing experiments suggest a complex system of mating in this sympatric area. The main aims of this study were to estimate the pollen dispersal distance and to evaluate the breeding structure of P. axillaris subsp. axillaris, a hawkmoth-pollinated taxon from this sympatric zone. METHODS Pollen dispersal distance was compared with nearest-neighbours distance, and the differentiation in the pollen pool among mother plants was estimated. In addition, the correlation between genetic differentiation and spatial distance among plants was tested. All adult individuals (252) within a space of 2800 m(2) and 15 open-pollinated progeny (285 seedlings) were analysed. Genetic analyses were based on 12 polymorphic microsatellite loci. KEY RESULTS A high proportion of self-pollination was found, indicating a mixed-mating system. The maximum pollen dispersal distance was 1013 m, but most pollination events (96 %) occurred at a distance of 0 m, predominantly in an inbreeding system. Both parents among sampled individuals could be identifed in 60-85 % of the progeny. CONCLUSIONS The results show that most pollen dispersal in the hawkmoth-pollinated P. axillaris subsp. axillaris occurs within populations and there is a high proportion of inbreeding. This mating system appears to favour species integrity in a secondary contact zone with the congener species P. exserta.
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- Caroline Turchetto
- Laboratory of Molecular Evolution, Department of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, PO Box 15053, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Laboratory of Genetic Diversity, Universidade Federal de Goiás, PO Box 131, 74001-970 Goiania, GO, Brazil and Laboratory of Genomic and Molecular Biology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Ipiranga 6681, 90610-001 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Molecular Evolution, Department of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, PO Box 15053, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Laboratory of Genetic Diversity, Universidade Federal de Goiás, PO Box 131, 74001-970 Goiania, GO, Brazil and Laboratory of Genomic and Molecular Biology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Ipiranga 6681, 90610-001 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Molecular Evolution, Department of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, PO Box 15053, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Laboratory of Genetic Diversity, Universidade Federal de Goiás, PO Box 131, 74001-970 Goiania, GO, Brazil and Laboratory of Genomic and Molecular Biology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Ipiranga 6681, 90610-001 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Molecular Evolution, Department of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, PO Box 15053, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Laboratory of Genetic Diversity, Universidade Federal de Goiás, PO Box 131, 74001-970 Goiania, GO, Brazil and Laboratory of Genomic and Molecular Biology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Ipiranga 6681, 90610-001 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Molecular Evolution, Department of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, PO Box 15053, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Laboratory of Genetic Diversity, Universidade Federal de Goiás, PO Box 131, 74001-970 Goiania, GO, Brazil and Laboratory of Genomic and Molecular Biology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Ipiranga 6681, 90610-001 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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Kikuchi S, Shibata M, Tanaka H. Effects of forest fragmentation on the mating system of a cool-temperate heterodichogamous tree Acer mono. Glob Ecol Conserv 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2015.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Effects of Population Size, Forest Fragmentation, and Urbanization on Seed Production and Gene Flow in an Endangered Maple (Acer miyabei). AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST 2014. [DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-172.2.303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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DiLeo MF, Siu JC, Rhodes MK, López-Villalobos A, Redwine A, Ksiazek K, Dyer RJ. The gravity of pollination: integrating at-site features into spatial analysis of contemporary pollen movement. Mol Ecol 2014; 23:3973-82. [PMID: 24995799 DOI: 10.1111/mec.12839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2013] [Revised: 05/30/2014] [Accepted: 06/09/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Pollen-mediated gene flow is a major driver of spatial genetic structure in plant populations. Both individual plant characteristics and site-specific features of the landscape can modify the perceived attractiveness of plants to their pollinators and thus play an important role in shaping spatial genetic variation. Most studies of landscape-level genetic connectivity in plants have focused on the effects of interindividual distance using spatial and increasingly ecological separation, yet have not incorporated individual plant characteristics or other at-site ecological variables. Using spatially explicit simulations, we first tested the extent to which the inclusion of at-site variables influencing local pollination success improved the statistical characterization of genetic connectivity based upon examination of pollen pool genetic structure. The addition of at-site characteristics provided better models than those that only considered interindividual spatial distance (e.g. IBD). Models parameterized using conditional genetic covariance (e.g. population graphs) also outperformed those assuming panmixia. In a natural population of Cornus florida L. (Cornaceae), we showed that the addition of at-site characteristics (clumping of primary canopy opening above each maternal tree and maternal tree floral output) provided significantly better models describing gene flow than models including only between-site spatial (IBD) and ecological (isolation by resistance) variables. Overall, our results show that including interindividual and local ecological variation greatly aids in characterizing landscape-level measures of contemporary gene flow.
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- Michelle F DiLeo
- Department of Biology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6, Canada
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Saro I, Robledo-Arnuncio JJ, González-Pérez MA, Sosa PA. Patterns of pollen dispersal in a small population of the Canarian endemic palm (Phoenix canariensis). Heredity (Edinb) 2014; 113:215-23. [PMID: 24619186 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2014.16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2013] [Revised: 12/20/2013] [Accepted: 01/23/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The genetic diversity of small populations is greatly influenced by local dispersal patterns and genetic connectivity among populations, with pollen dispersal being the major component of gene flow in many plants species. Patterns of pollen dispersal, mating system parameters and spatial genetic structure were investigated in a small isolated population of the emblematic palm Phoenix canariensis in Gran Canaria island (Canary Islands). All adult palms present in the study population (n=182), as well as 616 seeds collected from 22 female palms, were mapped and genotyped at 8 microsatellite loci. Mating system analysis revealed an average of 5.8 effective pollen donors (Nep) per female. There was strong variation in correlated paternity rates across maternal progenies (ranging from null to 0.9) that could not be explained by the location and density of local males around focal females. Paternity analysis revealed a mean effective pollen dispersal distance of ∼71 m, with ∼70% of effective pollen originating from a distance of <75 m, and 90% from <200 m. A spatially explicit mating model indicated a leptokurtic pollen dispersal kernel, significant pollen immigration (12%) from external palm groves and a directional pollen dispersal pattern that seems consistent with local altitudinal air movement. No evidence of inbreeding or genetic diversity erosion was found, but spatial genetic structure was detected in the small palm population. Overall, the results suggest substantial pollen dispersal over the studied population, genetic connectivity among different palm groves and some resilience to neutral genetic erosion and subsequently to fragmentation.
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- I Saro
- Grupo de Biogeografía, Conservación y Territorio, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Genetics, Forest Research Center (CIFOR), INIA, Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo de Biogeografía, Conservación y Territorio, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
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- Grupo de Biogeografía, Conservación y Territorio, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
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Thomasset M, Hodkinson TR, Restoux G, Frascaria-Lacoste N, Douglas GC, Fernández-Manjarrés JF. Thank you for not flowering: conservation genetics and gene flow analysis of native and non-native populations of Fraxinus (Oleaceae) in Ireland. Heredity (Edinb) 2014; 112:596-606. [PMID: 24424162 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2013.141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2012] [Revised: 09/02/2013] [Accepted: 11/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The risks of gene flow between interfertile native and introduced plant populations are greatest when there is no spatial isolation of pollen clouds and phenological patterns overlap completely. Moreover, invasion probabilities are further increased if introduced populations are capable of producing seeds by selfing. Here we investigated the mating system and patterns of pollen-mediated gene flow among populations of native ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and mixed plantations of non-native ash (F. angustifolia and F. excelsior) as well as hybrid ash (F. excelsior × F. angustifolia) in Ireland. We analysed the flowering phenology of the mother trees and genotyped with six microsatellite loci in progeny arrays from 132 native and plantation trees (1493 seeds) and 444 potential parents. Paternity analyses suggested that plantation and native trees were pollinated by both native and introduced trees. No signs of significant selfing in the introduced trees were observed and no evidence of higher male reproductive success was found for introduced trees compared with native ones either. A small but significant genetic structure was found (φft=0.05) and did not correspond to an isolation-by-distance pattern. However, we observed a significant temporal genetic structure related to the different phenological groups, especially with early and late flowering native trees; each phenological group was pollinated with distinctive pollen sources. Implications of these results are discussed in relation to the conservation and invasiveness of ash and the spread of resistance genes against pathogens such as the fungus Chalara fraxinea that is destroying common ash forests in Europe.
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- M Thomasset
- 1] School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland [2] Teagasc, Kinsealy Research Centre, Dublin, Ireland
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- 1] School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland [2] Trinity Centre for Biodiversity Research, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Laboratoire d'Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, UMR 8079, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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- 1] Laboratoire d'Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, UMR 8079, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France [2] AgroParisTech, Paris, France [3] CNRS, UMR 8079, Orsay, France
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- Teagasc, Kinsealy Research Centre, Dublin, Ireland
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- 1] Laboratoire d'Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, UMR 8079, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France [2] AgroParisTech, Paris, France [3] CNRS, UMR 8079, Orsay, France
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Chybicki IJ, Burczyk J. Seeing the forest through the trees: comprehensive inference on individual mating patterns in a mixed stand of Quercus robur and Q. petraea. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2013; 112:561-74. [PMID: 23788747 PMCID: PMC3718219 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mct131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Sexual reproduction is one of the most important moments in a life cycle, determining the genetic composition of individual offspring. Controlled pollination experiments often show high variation in the mating system at the individual level, suggesting a persistence of individual variation in natural populations. Individual variation in mating patterns may have significant adaptive implications for a population and for the entire species. Nevertheless, field data rarely address individual differences in mating patterns, focusing rather on averages. This study aimed to quantify individual variation in the different components of mating patterns. METHODS Microsatellite data were used from 421 adult trees and 1911 seeds, structured in 72 half-sib families collected in a single mixed stand of Quercus robur and Q. petraea in northern Poland. Using a Bayesian approach, mating patterns were investigated, taking into account pollen dispersal, male fecundity, possible hybridization and heterogeneity in immigrant pollen pools. KEY RESULTS Pollen dispersal followed a heavy-tailed distribution (283 m on average). In spite of high pollen mobility, immigrant pollen pools showed strong genetic structuring among mothers. At the individual level, immigrant pollen pools showed highly variable divergence rates, revealing that sources of immigrant pollen can vary greatly among particular trees. Within the stand, the distribution of male fecundity appeared highly skewed, with a small number of dominant males, resulting in a ratio of census to effective density of pollen donors of 5·3. Male fecundity was not correlated with tree diameter but showed strong cline-like spatial variation. This pattern can be attributed to environmental variation. Quercus petraea revealed a greater preference (74 %) towards intraspecific mating than Q. robur (36 %), although mating preferences varied among trees. CONCLUSIONS Mating patterns can reveal great variation among individuals, even within a single even-age stand. The results show that trees can mate assortatively, with little respect for spatial proximity. Such selective mating may be a result of variable combining compatibility among trees due to genetic and/or environmental factors.
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- Igor J Chybicki
- Department of Genetics, Institute of Experimental Biology, Kazimierz Wielki University, 85064 Bydgoszcz, Poland.
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Chybicki IJ. Note on the Applicability of the F-model in Analysis of Pollen Pool Heterogeneity. J Hered 2013; 104:578-85. [DOI: 10.1093/jhered/est029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Ozawa H, Watanabe A, Uchiyama K, Saito Y, Ide Y. Influence of long-distance seed dispersal on the genetic diversity of seed rain in fragmented Pinus densiflora populations relative to pollen-mediated gene flow. J Hered 2013; 104:465-75. [PMID: 23613135 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/est022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Long-distance dispersal (LDD) of seeds has a critical impact on species survival in patchy landscapes. However, relative to pollen dispersal, empirical data on how seed LDD affects genetic diversity in fragmented populations have been poorly reported. Thus, we attempted to indirectly evaluate the influence of seed LDD by estimating maternal and paternal inbreeding in the seed rain of fragmented 8 Pinus densiflora populations. In total, the sample size was 458 seeds and 306 adult trees. Inbreeding was estimated by common parentage analysis to evaluate gene flow within populations and by sibship reconstruction analysis to estimate gene flow within and among populations. In the parentage analysis, the observed probability that sampled seeds had the same parents within populations was significantly larger than the expected probability in many populations. This result suggested that gene dispersal was limited to within populations. In the sibship reconstruction, many donors both within and among populations appeared to contribute to sampled seeds. Significant differences in sibling ratios were not detected between paternity and maternity. These results suggested that seed-mediated gene flow and pollen-mediated gene flow from outside population contributed some extent to high genetic diversity of the seed rain (H E > 0.854). We emphasize that pine seeds may have excellent potential for gene exchange within and among populations.
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- Hajime Ozawa
- Fukushima Prefectural Forestry Research Centre, 1 Nishijimasaka, Narita, Asaka-machi, Koriyama 963-0112, Japan.
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Tarazi R, Sebbenn AM, Kageyama PY, Vencovsky R. Edge effects enhance selfing and seed harvesting efforts in the insect-pollinated Neotropical tree Copaifera langsdorffii (Fabaceae). Heredity (Edinb) 2013; 110:578-85. [PMID: 23486081 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2013.8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Edge effects may affect the mating system of tropical tree species and reduce the genetic diversity and variance effective size of collected seeds at the boundaries of forest fragments because of a reduction in the density of reproductive trees, neighbour size and changes in the behaviour of pollinators. Here, edge effects on the genetic diversity, mating system and pollen pool of the insect-pollinated Neotropical tree Copaifera langsdorffii were investigated using eight microsatellite loci. Open-pollinated seeds were collected from 17 seed trees within continuous savannah woodland (SW) and were compared with seeds from 11 seed trees at the edge of the savannah remnant. Seeds collected from the SW had significantly higher heterozygosity levels (Ho=0.780; He=0.831) than seeds from the edge (Ho=0.702; He=0.800). The multilocus outcrossing rate was significantly higher in the SW (tm=0.859) than in the edge (tm=0.759). Pollen pool differentiation was significant, however, it did not differ between the SW (=0.105) and the edge (=0.135). The variance effective size within the progenies was significantly higher in the SW (Ne=2.65) than at the edge (Ne=2.30). The number of seed trees to retain the reference variance effective size of 500 was 189 at the SW and 217 at the edge. Therefore, it is preferable that seed harvesting for conservation and environmental restoration strategies be conducted in the SW, where genetic diversity and variance effective size within progenies are higher.
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- R Tarazi
- Departamento de Genética, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 9, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil.
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Inferring contemporary dispersal processes in plant metapopulations: comparison of direct and indirect estimates of dispersal for the annual species Crepis sancta. Heredity (Edinb) 2013; 111:1-7. [PMID: 23443058 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2013.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Analyzing population dynamics in changing habitats is a prerequisite for population dynamics forecasting. The recent development of metapopulation modeling allows the estimation of dispersal kernels based on the colonization pattern but the accuracy of these estimates compared with direct estimates of the seed dispersal kernel has rarely been assessed. In this study, we used recent genetic methods based on parentage analysis (spatially explicit mating models) to estimate seed and pollen dispersal kernels as well as seed and pollen immigration in fragmented urban populations of the plant species Crepis sancta with contrasting patch dynamics. Using two independent networks, we documented substantial seed immigration and a highly restricted dispersal kernel. Moreover, immigration heterogeneity among networks was consistent with previously reported metapopulation dynamics, showing that colonization was mainly due to external colonization in the first network (propagule rain) and local colonization in the second network. We concluded that the differences in urban patch dynamics are mainly due to seed immigration heterogeneity, highlighting the importance of external population source in the spatio-temporal dynamics of plants in a fragmented landscape. The results show that indirect and direct methods were qualitatively consistent, providing a proper interpretation of indirect estimates. This study provides attempts to link genetic and demographic methods and show that patch occupancy models may provide simple methods for analyzing population dynamics in heterogeneous landscapes in the context of global change.
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García C, Grivet D. Molecular insights into seed dispersal mutualisms driving plant population recruitment. ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2011.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Braga AC, Collevatti RG. Temporal variation in pollen dispersal and breeding structure in a bee-pollinated Neotropical tree. Heredity (Edinb) 2011; 106:911-9. [PMID: 20978531 PMCID: PMC3186249 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2010.134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2010] [Accepted: 09/21/2010] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Variation among flowering seasons in the time of flowering, synchrony and length of flowering, and fluctuations in the abundance of pollinators may cause a variation in pollen dispersal distance. In this study, we analyzed the temporal variation in pollen dispersal and breeding structure in the Neotropical tree species Tabebuia aurea (Bignoniaceae) and evaluated pollen dispersal between a population inside the reserve and a patch of isolated individuals on the edge of the reserve, and tested the hypothesis that isolated individuals are sinking for pollen. All adult trees (260) within a population of 40 ha and 9 isolated individuals on the edge of the reserve were sampled, and from these adults, 21 open-pollinated progeny arrays were analyzed in 2 flowering seasons (309 seeds in 2004 and 328 in 2005). Genetic analyses were based on the polymorphism at 10 microsatellite loci. A high proportion of self-pollination found in both flowering seasons indicated a mixed-mating system. The mean pollen dispersal distance differed significantly between the two flowering seasons (307.78 m in 2004 and 396.26 m in 2005). Maximum pollen dispersal was 2608 m, but most pollination events (65%) occurred at distances <300 m. Our results also showed that isolated individuals are sinking for pollen, with high pollen flow between the population inside the reserve and individuals on the edge. These results are most likely due to the large pollinator species, which can potentially fly long distances, and also due to temporal variation in individual fecundity and contribution to pollen dispersal.
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- A C Braga
- Pós-Graduação em Ciências Genômicas e Biotecnologia, Universidade Católica de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Genética e Biodiversidade, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
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Miller MP, Haig SM. Identifying shared genetic structure patterns among Pacific Northwest forest taxa: insights from use of visualization tools and computer simulations. PLoS One 2010; 5:e13683. [PMID: 21060824 PMCID: PMC2966394 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2010] [Accepted: 10/05/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Identifying causal relationships in phylogeographic and landscape genetic investigations is notoriously difficult, but can be facilitated by use of multispecies comparisons. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We used data visualizations to identify common spatial patterns within single lineages of four taxa inhabiting Pacific Northwest forests (northern spotted owl: Strix occidentalis caurina; red tree vole: Arborimus longicaudus; southern torrent salamander: Rhyacotriton variegatus; and western white pine: Pinus monticola). Visualizations suggested that, despite occupying the same geographical region and habitats, species responded differently to prevailing historical processes. S. o. caurina and P. monticola demonstrated directional patterns of spatial genetic structure where genetic distances and diversity were greater in southern versus northern locales. A. longicaudus and R. variegatus displayed opposite patterns where genetic distances were greater in northern versus southern regions. Statistical analyses of directional patterns subsequently confirmed observations from visualizations. Based upon regional climatological history, we hypothesized that observed latitudinal patterns may have been produced by range expansions. Subsequent computer simulations confirmed that directional patterns can be produced by expansion events. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE We discuss phylogeographic hypotheses regarding historical processes that may have produced observed patterns. Inferential methods used here may become increasingly powerful as detailed simulations of organisms and historical scenarios become plausible. We further suggest that inter-specific comparisons of historical patterns take place prior to drawing conclusions regarding effects of current anthropogenic change within landscapes.
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- Mark P Miller
- Department of Biology and Center for High Performance Computing, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America.
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Gene flow and mating patterns in individuals of wych elm (Ulmus glabra) in forest and open land after the influence of Dutch elm disease. CONSERV GENET 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/s10592-009-0028-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Restricted pollen flow of Dieffenbachia seguine populations in fragmented and continuous tropical forest. Heredity (Edinb) 2009; 105:197-204. [PMID: 20029453 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2009.179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Habitat fragmentation can change the ecological context of populations, rupturing genetic connectivity among them, changing genetic structure, and increasing the loss of genetic diversity. We analyzed mating system and pollen structure in two population fragments and two continuous forest populations of Dieffenbachia seguine (Araceae), an insect-pollinated understory herb in the tropical rain forest of Los Tuxtlas, México, using nine allozyme loci. Mating system analysis indicated almost complete outcrossing but some inbreeding among the adults. Pollen structure analysis indicated highly restricted pollen flow, both within and among populations. We showed that the effective pollination neighborhood was small in all populations, and slightly (though not significantly) smaller in fragments, partially as a consequence of an increase in density of reproductive individuals in those fragments. Using assignment analysis, we showed that all populations were strongly structured, suggesting that pollen and seed flow across the Los Tuxtlas landscape has been spatially restricted, though sufficient to maintain connectedness. Forest fragmentation at Los Tuxtlas has (so far) had limited impact on pollen dynamics, despite the changing ecological context, with reduced pollinator abundance being partially offset by increased flowering density in fragments. Continued outcrossing and limited pollen immigration, coupled with more extensive seed migration, should maintain genetic connectedness in D. seguine, if fragmentation is not further exacerbated by additional deforestation.
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Broquet T, Petit EJ. Molecular Estimation of Dispersal for Ecology and Population Genetics. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS 2009. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.110308.120324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 209] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Thomas Broquet
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland;
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- INRA/Agrocampus Ouest/Univ. Rennes 1, UMR 1099 BiO3P (Biology of Organisms and Populations applied to Plant Protection), Domaine de la Motte, 35653 Le Rheu, France;
- University Rennes 1/CNRS, UMR 6553 ECOBIO, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France
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GRIVET DELPHINE, ROBLEDO-ARNUNCIO JUANJ, SMOUSE PETERE, SORK VICTORIAL. Relative contribution of contemporary pollen and seed dispersal to the effective parental size of seedling population of California valley oak (Quercus lobata, Née). Mol Ecol 2009; 18:3967-79. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2009.04326.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Bohrerova Z, Bohrer G, Cho KD, Bolch MA, Linden KG. Determining the viability response of pine pollen to atmospheric conditions during long-distance dispersal. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS : A PUBLICATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2009; 19:656-67. [PMID: 19425429 DOI: 10.1890/07-2088.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Pollen of forest trees can move on the scales of tens to hundreds of kilometers, but the question of its viability during this long distance dispersal (LDD) has yet to be answered. While empirical studies of pollen viability in forest tree species are rare, controlled and scalable data to outdoor studies of the contribution of UV irradiation on pollen viability are not available. A simple protocol that allows the quantification of the viability response of pollen to UV, temperature, and humidity is developed and described here. Bench-scale conditions that approximate a wide range of atmospheric conditions including different humidity, temperature, and UV irradiation condition are used to determine the independent effects of each abiotic stress factor, and empirical functions are fitted and used to scale these bench-scale experiments to outdoor conditions. As a case study, pollen was sampled from two populations of Pinus taeda during two years and was used to quantify the decrease in viability due to atmospheric conditions during LDD. Contrary to maize pollen, P. taeda pollen viability decreased due to humid and cold conditions. The viability response of pollen to UV-A and UV-B corresponded to a viability reduction of about 10% after a full day of exposure. These laboratory findings were corroborated by an outdoor solar exposure experiment. The Fu-Liou online radiation model and a data set of radiosonde observations were used to estimate the typical conditions that would be encountered by LDD pollen. If initially caught in a strong updraft, dispersing P. taeda pollen could be carried many days and thousands of kilometers in the air. The empirical equations for P. taeda pollen viability reduction due to abiotic stresses predicted that 50% of the pollen would survive 24 hours of LDD under typical external conditions. The viable range of the pollen is, therefore, shorter than the physical dispersal distance. The methods used in our experiments are applicable for determination of dispersing pollen viability, especially when effects of different adverse conditions need to be separated. The empirical viability equations that resulted from our experiments can be used in an atmospheric dispersal model to estimate the viable range of tree pollen.
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- Zuzana Bohrerova
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.
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SLAVOV GT, LEONARDI S, BURCZYK J, ADAMS WT, STRAUSS SH, DIFAZIO SP. Extensive pollen flow in two ecologically contrasting populations ofPopulus trichocarpa. Mol Ecol 2009; 18:357-73. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2008.04016.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Larsen AS, Kjær ED. Pollen mediated gene flow in a native population of Malus sylvestris and its implications for contemporary gene conservation management. CONSERV GENET 2008. [DOI: 10.1007/s10592-008-9713-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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KLEIN EK, DESASSIS N, ODDOU-MURATORIO S. Pollen flow in the wildservice tree,Sorbus torminalis(L.) Crantz. IV. Whole interindividual variance of male fecundity estimated jointly with the dispersal kernel. Mol Ecol 2008; 17:3323-36. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2008.03809.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Sampson JF, Byrne M. Outcrossing between an agroforestry plantation and remnant native populations of Eucalyptus loxophleba. Mol Ecol 2008; 17:2769-81. [PMID: 18444981 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2008.03779.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Gene dispersal among populations of a species is an important force influencing their genetic structure. Dispersal may also occur between taxa that would normally be isolated when nonendemic, domesticated or transgenic species are planted within the natural range of interfertile taxa. Such a mosaic of populations is typical of many agricultural landscapes, and investigations are needed to assess the risks of genetic contamination of the endemic populations but a combination of approaches may be necessary because of the limitations of research in this landscape. This study used microsatellite markers and a range of analyses (mating system, paternity exclusion, Bayesian assignment) to examine gene dispersal between remnants of the endemic Eucalyptus loxophleba ssp. supralaevis and a plantation of a nonendemic subspecies. Our results indicate that remnant populations are connected by significant dispersal to pollen sources up to 1.94 km away including the plantation. The combined analyses showed that the pollen pool and outcrossing rates of individuals within remnants varied significantly probably because of asynchronous flowering and that the likelihood of paternity was not correlated with spatial proximity. More than half of all progeny had male parents from outside their stand with the largest proportions estimated to come from the plantation by exclusion (42.4%) or Bayesian analyses (18.8-76%). Fragmentation may not be associated with decreased gene dispersal between populations of tree species, natural or planted, so that the distances required to buffer endemic trees in fragmented rural landscapes are likely to be large.
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- Jane F Sampson
- Science Division, Department of Environment and Conservation, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, Bentley, WA 6983, Australia.
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Kubota S, Kameyama Y, Hirao AS, Ohara M. Adaptive significance of self-fertilization in a hermaphroditic perennial, Trillium camschatcense (Melanthiaceae). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2008; 95:482-489. [PMID: 21632373 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.95.4.482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The evolution of self-fertilization from primarily outcrossing ancestors is one of the most common evolutionary transitions in plants; however, the ecological mechanisms that maintain self-fertilization have remained controversial. Theoretical studies suggest that selfing is advantageous over outcrossing in terms of genetic transmission and assurance of seed production under pollen-limited circumstances. Trillium camschatcense is a herbaceous perennial distributed in Hokkaido and northern Honshu, Japan. Geographical variation in the breeding system (self-compatible, SC; or self-incompatible, SI) has been reported in populations in Hokkaido. Here, we used several SC and SI populations of T. camschatcense to investigate the adaptive significance and the evolutionary basis of self-fertilization. Pollination experiments and genetic analyses demonstrated that the potential availability of outcross pollen in SC populations was sufficient and that the number of pollen donors was equal to that of SI populations. However, despite the high availability of outcross pollen, the SC populations produced seeds predominantly by selfing and so underwent severe inbreeding depression. Although none of the suggested advantages for self-fertilization were supported by our analyses, we propose two possible scenarios for the evolution of self-fertilization in T. camschatcense.
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- Shosei Kubota
- Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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Fortuna MA, García C, Guimarães PR, Bascompte J. Spatial mating networks in insect-pollinated plants. Ecol Lett 2008; 11:490-8. [PMID: 18318718 DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01167.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Gene flow in plant populations is largely determined by landscape heterogeneity. Both the shape of the pollination kernel and the spatial distribution of trees affect the distribution of pollen grains and the genotypes they harbour, but little is known about the relative contribution of each of these two factors. Using genetic markers we build a spatial network of pollination events between any two trees in a population of Prunus mahaleb, an insect-pollinated plant. Then, we apply tools from the science of complex networks to characterize the structure of such a mating network. Although the distribution of the number of pollen donors per tree is quite homogeneous, the identity of donors is distributed heterogeneously across the population. This results in a population structured in well-defined modules or compartments, formed by a group of mother trees and their shared pollen donors. Long-distance pollination events decrease the modular structure by favouring mating among all available mates. This increases gene flow across the entire population, reducing its genetic structure, and potentially decreasing the role of genetic drift.
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- Miguel A Fortuna
- Integrative Ecology Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Apdo. 1056, E-41080 Sevilla, Spain.
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Eduardo A, De Lacerda B, Kanashiro M, Sebbenn AM. Long-pollen Movement and Deviation of Random Mating in a Low-density Continuous Population of a Tropical Tree Hymenaea courbaril in the Brazilian Amazon. Biotropica 2008. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00402.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Bittencourt JVM, Sebbenn AM. Pollen movement within a continuous forest of wind-pollinated Araucaria angustifolia, inferred from paternity and TwoGener analysis. CONSERV GENET 2007. [DOI: 10.1007/s10592-007-9411-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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ROBLEDO-ARNUNCIO JUANJ, AUSTERLITZ FRÉDÉRIC, SMOUSE PETERE. POLDISP: a software package for indirect estimation of contemporary pollen dispersal. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01706.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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da Silva Carneiro F, Magno Sebbenn A, Kanashiro M, Degen B. Low Interannual Variation of Mating System and Gene Flow of Symphonia globulifera in the Brazilian Amazon. Biotropica 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00314.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Austerlitz F, Dutech C, Smouse PE, Davis F, Sork VL. Estimating anisotropic pollen dispersal: a case study in Quercus lobata. Heredity (Edinb) 2007; 99:193-204. [PMID: 17487216 DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The pollen dispersal distribution is an important element of the neighbourhood size of plant populations. Most methods aimed at estimating the dispersal curve assume that pollen dispersal is isotropic, but evidence indicates that this assumption does not hold for many plant species, particularly wind-pollinated species subject to prevailing winds during the pollination season. We propose here a method of detecting anisotropy of pollen dispersal and of gauging its intensity, based on the estimation of the differentiation of maternal pollen clouds (TWOGENER extraction), assuming that pollen dispersal is bivariate and normally distributed. We applied the new method to a case study in Quercus lobata, detecting only a modest level of anisotropy in pollen dispersal in a direction roughly similar to the prevailing wind direction. Finally, we conducted a simulation to explore the conditions under which anisotropy can be detected with this method, and we show that while anisotropy is detectable, in principle, it requires a large volume of data.
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- F Austerlitz
- Laboratoire Ecologie, Systematique et Evolution, UMR CNRS 8079, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay Cedex, France
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Cloutier D, Hardy OJ, Caron H, Ciampi AY, Degen B, Kanashiro M, Schoen DJ. Low Inbreeding and High Pollen Dispersal Distances in Populations of Two Amazonian Forest Tree Species. Biotropica 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00266.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Isagi Y, Tateno R, Matsuki Y, Hirao A, Watanabe S, Shibata M. Genetic and reproductive consequences of forest fragmentation for populations of Magnolia obovata. Ecol Res 2007. [DOI: 10.1007/s11284-007-0360-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Cloutier D, Kanashiro M, Ciampi AY, Schoen DJ. Impact of selective logging on inbreeding and gene dispersal in an Amazonian tree population of Carapa guianensis Aubl. Mol Ecol 2006; 16:797-809. [PMID: 17284212 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2006.03193.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Selective logging may impact patterns of genetic diversity within populations of harvested forest tree species by increasing distances separating conspecific trees, and modifying physical and biotic features of the forest habitat. We measured levels of gene diversity, inbreeding, pollen dispersal and spatial genetic structure (SGS) of an Amazonian insect-pollinated Carapa guianensis population before and after commercial selective logging. Similar levels of gene diversity and allelic richness were found before and after logging in both the adult and the seed generations. Pre- and post-harvest outcrossing rates were high, and not significantly different from one another. We found no significant levels of biparental inbreeding either before or after logging. Low levels of pollen pool differentiation were found, and the pre- vs. post-harvest difference was not significant. Pollen dispersal distance estimates averaged between 75 m and 265 m before logging, and between 76 m and 268 m after logging, depending on the value of tree density and the dispersal model used. There were weak and similar levels of differentiation of allele frequencies in the adults and in the pollen pool, before and after logging occurred, as well as weak and similar pre- and post-harvest levels of SGS among adult trees. The large neighbourhood sizes estimated suggest high historical levels of gene flow. Overall our results indicate that there is no clear short-term genetic impact of selective logging on this population of C. guianensis.
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- D Cloutier
- Biology Department, McGill University, 1205 Ave. Docteur Penfield, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3A 1B1.
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Robledo-Arnuncio JJ, Austerlitz F. Pollen Dispersal in Spatially Aggregated Populations. Am Nat 2006; 168:500-11. [PMID: 17004221 DOI: 10.1086/507881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2006] [Accepted: 05/09/2006] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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We perform a theoretical study of effective pollen dispersal within plant populations exhibiting intraspecific spatial aggregation. We simulate nonuniform distributions of individuals by means of a Poisson cluster process and use an individual-based spatially explicit model of pollen dispersal to assess the effects of different aggregation patterns on the effective pollen pool size (N(ep)) and the axial variance of pollen dispersal (sigma (p)). Results show clear interactions between clumping and both N(ep) and sigma (p), whose precise form and intensity depend on the relative spatial scale of aggregation to pollen dispersal range. If clump size is small relative to dispersal range, clumping results in lower N(ep) and sigma (p) than in randomly distributed populations. Interestingly, by contrast, aggregation may actually enlarge N(ep) and has minimum impact on sigma (p) if clump size is near or above the scale of dispersal. High intraclump to global density ratios enhance the sensitivity of both N(ep) and sigma (p) to clumping, while leptokurtic pollen dispersal generates sharper reductions of both N(ep) and sigma (p) for small clump sizes and stronger increments of N(ep) for larger clump sizes. Overall, our results indicate that isolation-by-distance models in plants should not ignore the effects of intraspecific spatial aggregation on effective dispersal.
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- Juan J Robledo-Arnuncio
- Laboratoire Génétique et Environnement, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier II, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France.
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Fernández-Manjarrés JF, Idol J, Sork VL. Mating Patterns of Black Oak Quercus velutina (Fagaceae) in a Missouri Oak-Hickory Forest. J Hered 2006; 97:451-5. [PMID: 16985080 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esl022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Wind-pollinated forest trees usually have high outcrossing rates, but allogamy does not necessarily translate into high pollen movement. The goal of this study was to determine the outcrossing rates, pollen pool genetic structure, and the size of the effective pollination neighborhood in a population of black oak, Quercus velutina, in a Missouri oak-hickory forest. Based on 6 allozyme loci, 12 maternal trees, and 439 progenies sampled along a transect of 1300 m, we found complete outcrossing (t(m) = 1.000, P < 0.001) and small amounts of biparental inbreeding. Using a TwoGener analysis of the pollen gene pool, we found significant structure across maternal plants (Phi(FT) = 0.078, P < 0.001), which when corrected for adult inbreeding translates into Phi(FT) = 0.066 that corresponds to an effective number of pollen donors of 7.5 individuals. Assuming a bivariate normal distribution and an adult density of 16.25 trees ha(-1), we estimated that the effective pollination neighborhood area had a radius of 41.9 m. Even assuming that our estimates may be conservative, these findings join a growing body of evidence that suggest that the local neighborhood of wind-pollinated forest tree populations may be relatively small creating opportunities for local selection and genetic drift.
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- Juan F Fernández-Manjarrés
- Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, Bât 360, Université Paris 11 Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.
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