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Invasion of Kalanchoe by clonal spread

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Kalanchoe delagoensis, K. daigremontiana and their hybrid (Houghton’s hybrid) are invasive in tropical regions. One outstanding feature of these Madagascan succulent plants is the growth of clonal propagules from the margin of their leaves. Using eight microsatellite loci, we estimated the genetic diversity of introduced populations of these species and their hybrid in Mexico. For K. daigremontiana and Houghton’s hybrid, we registered one multilocus genotype in all populations, which were separated by several hundred km. The same occurred in K. delagoensis populations where only four multilocus genotypes were present (A, B, C and D), although genotype A accounted for 86 % of all screened individuals of that population. The other three genotypes were in low frequencies and did not present new alleles, indicating that they are very likely derived by sexual recombination. However, sexual reproduction seems not to have occurred in the other populations. The presence of just one genotype of the hybrid suggests that hybridization between K. delagoensis and K. daigremontiana is unlikely, but we cannot discard it because of the absence of private alleles. The lack of genotypic diversity suggests that the invasion by these two species and the hybrid occurred from the introduction of one genotype, and have expanded by clonal growth and human mediated dispersal.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank H. Altamirano and C. Martínez who helped during field work, Director E. Sánchez and personnel of the Manuel González de Cosio Botanical Garden for allowing the collection of plant material. F. Molina and L. Eguiarte read and significantly improved previous versions of the manuscript. Research was partially funded by Projects UNAM-PAPIT IN 207411, SEMARNAT/CONACyT 0350 to MCM as well as CONABIO GN-047, GEF-ENCIS (Mexico), CONACyT 83790 and 62390 to JG. CONACyT and Posgrado en Ciencias Biologicas UNAM provided a scholarship for AGG.

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    Azalea Guerra-García & María C. Mandujano

  2. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Calz del Hueso 1100, Col. Villa Quietud, Coyoacán, 04960, Mexico, Mexico

    Jordan Golubov

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Guerra-García, A., Golubov, J. & C. Mandujano, M. Invasion of Kalanchoe by clonal spread. Biol Invasions 17, 1615–1622 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-014-0820-0

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