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Mahy G, Vekemans X, Jacquemart AL. Patterns of allozymic variation within calluna vulgaris populations at seed bank and adult stages . Heredity (Edinb). 1999;82:432-40doi: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6884990.
Mahy, G., Vekemans, X., & Jacquemart, A. L. (1999). Patterns of allozymic variation within calluna vulgaris populations at seed bank and adult stages . Heredity, 82432-40. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.hdy.6884990
Mahy, et al. "Patterns of allozymic variation within calluna vulgaris populations at seed bank and adult stages ." Heredity vol. 82 (1999): 432-40. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.hdy.6884990
Mahy G, Vekemans X, Jacquemart AL. Patterns of allozymic variation within calluna vulgaris populations at seed bank and adult stages . Heredity (Edinb). 1999 Apr;82:432-40. doi: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6884990. PMID: 10383662.
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Heredity (Edinb). 1999 Apr;82:432-40. doi: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6884990.

Patterns of allozymic variation within calluna vulgaris populations at seed bank and adult stages .

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Mahy, Vekemans, Jacquemart

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  1. Unite d'Ecologie et de Biogeographie, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Place Croix du Sud 5, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

PMID: 10383662 DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6884990

Abstract

We investigated the spatial genetic structure within and between two plots of Calluna vulgaris and the extent to which the soil seed bank differed genetically from adults at seven allozyme loci. Averaged over the two plots, the seed bank and adult populations contained very similar levels of genetic diversity. Moreover, seeds contained in a single soil core (100 cm3) exhibited similar mean allozyme diversity to the surrounding adult population, indicating that the seed bank preserves genetic diversity at a very local scale. Few differences in allelic frequencies were found between the seed bank and its surrounding adult population in each plot. Mean GST indicated a lack of differentiation between the two plots at adult (GST = 0.008) and seed bank (GST = 0.002) stages. Low interplot differentiation is consistent with the outcrossing mating system of the population (tm = 0.91 in one plot) and its history of human disturbance. In contrast, spatial autocorrelation analysis of adults indicated a genetic structure at a very local scale, with positive autocorrelation for all alleles below 2 m in one plot and with a pattern of positive autocorrelation below 8 m in the two plots. Current limitation to seed dispersal rather than spatial extension of clones is thought to be responsible for local genetic structure.

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