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Genetic diversity in a sample of an aquatic plantButomus umbellatus from 37 localities in Czechia and Slovakia was studied by analyzing six polymorphic loci in three enzymatic systems (SKDH, PGD and AAT). Diversity among ramets was low in eight populations with relatively extensive sampling (only one population possessed more than one multilocus genotype), suggesting high clonality of reproduction in these populations. However, among-population diversity was high: G = 0.782 and 0.881 for the samples of diploid and triploid populations, respectively. Heterozygosity of individual plants averaged over variable loci was also high: H = 0.554 for diploids and 0.453 for triploids. Genetic differentiation among populations was additionally studied using cluster analysis. Several populations of diploids clustered separately from all other populations, whereas another group of diploid populations clustered with some triploid populations, indicating the possibility of relatively recent, probably multiple origin of these triploid populations from their diploid progenitors. Association between matrices of Nei’s genetic distances among populations from different localities and matrices of geographic distances among these localities revealed highly significant correlation for the sample of diploid populations (r = 0.60,P < 0.001) but no significant correlation for the sample of triploid populations (r = 0.02,P = 0.593). These results indicate a spatial structure of diploid populations in accordance with the isolation by distance model, and a random distribution of genotypes among triploid populations ofB. umbellatus.
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Kirschner, J., Bartish, I., Hroudová, Z. et al. Contrasting patterns of spatial genetic structure of diploid and triploid populations of the clonal aquatic species,Butomus umbellatus (Butomaceae), in Central Europe. Folia Geobot 39, 13–26 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02803261
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