ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2007
Spectrum of genetic diversity and networks of clonal organisms.
Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Population differentiation or species formation across the Indian and the Pacific Oceans? An example from the brooding marine hydrozoanEcology and evolution · 2017Article
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- Temporal stability in patterns of genetic diversity and structure of a marine foundation species (Zostera marina).Heredity · 2017Article
- Long-term acclimation to reciprocal light conditions suggests depth-related selection in the marine foundation speciesEcology and evolution · 2017Article
- Reproduction at the extremes: pseudovivipary, hybridization and genetic mosaicism in Posidonia australis (Posidoniaceae).Annals of botany · 2016Article
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- Scaling of processes shaping the clonal dynamics and genetic mosaic of seagrasses through temporal genetic monitoring.Heredity · 2014Article
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- Effects of clonality on the genetic variability of rare, insular species: the case of Ruta microcarpa from the Canary Islands.Ecology and evolution · 2013Article
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- Travelling in time with networks: Revealing present day hybridization versus ancestral polymorphism between two species of brown algae, Fucus vesiculosus and F. spiralis.BMC evolutionary biology · 2011Article
- Genetic diversity in three invasive clonal aquatic species in New Zealand.BMC genetics · 2010Article
- Distinguishing between hot-spots and melting-pots of genetic diversity using haplotype connectivity.Algorithms for molecular biology : AMB · 2010Article
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Abstract
Clonal reproduction characterizes a wide range of species including clonal plants in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and clonal microbes such as bacteria and parasitic protozoa, with a key role in human health and ecosystem processes. Clonal organisms present a particular challenge in population genetics because, in addition to the possible existence of replicates of the same genotype in a given sample, some of the hypotheses and concepts underlying classical population genetics models are irreconcilable with clonality. The genetic structure and diversity of clonal populations were examined using a combination of new tools to analyse microsatellite data in the marine angiosperm Posidonia oceanica. These tools were based on examination of the frequency distribution of the genetic distance among ramets, termed the spectrum of genetic diversity (GDS), and of networks built on the basis of pairwise genetic distances among genets. Clonal growth and outcrossing are apparently dominant processes, whereas selfing and somatic mutations appear to be marginal, and the contribution of immigration seems to play a small role in adding genetic diversity to populations. The properties and topology of networks based on genetic distances showed a 'small-world' topology, characterized by a high degree of connectivity among nodes, and a substantial amount of substructure, revealing organization in subfamilies of closely related individuals. The combination of GDS and network tools proposed here helped in dissecting the influence of various evolutionary processes in shaping the intra-population genetic structure of the clonal organism investigated; these therefore represent promising analytical tools in population genetics.
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