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In Japanese Stegnogramma pozoi subsp. mollissima (Fisher ex Kunze) K. Iwats. there is the intrasubspecific variation among rbcL sequences. Northern and southern plants are genetically differentiated for maternally inherited cpDNA. In the present study we examined allozyme polymorphisms to test the hypothesis that northern and southern plants may be separate species. Based on allozyme data, the degree of gene flow among populations was estimated to be large. The artificial crossing experiments between cpDNA haplotypes also suggested that isolation has not developed among these cpDNA haplotypes. However, interpopulation genetic differentiation in cpDNA was observed even in the small area at the foot of Mt. Hakone, and the cpDNA haplotypes appear to have different habitat preferences.
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Received: May 1, 2001 / Accepted: September 30, 2001
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Yatabe, Y., Watkins, J., Farrar, D. et al. Genetic variation in populations of the morphologically and ecologically variable fern Stegnogramma pozoi subsp. mollissima (Thelypteridaceae) in Japan. J Plant Res 115, 0029–0038 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s102650200005
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s102650200005