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Genetic variation and clonal diversity in floating aquatic plants: Comparative genomic analysis of water hyacinth species in their native range

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MOLECULAR ECOLOGY
卷 31, 期 20, 页码 5307-5325

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16664

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clonal propagation; dispersal; genetic diversity; genotype-by-sequencing; Pantanal wetlands; water hyacinth

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  1. Connaught Fund
  2. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas [10520170300865CO]
  3. Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior [88887.067088/2014--00, 88881.062191/2014--01]
  4. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

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This study compares the genetic diversity of two related water hyacinth species, E. crassipes and E. azurea, and finds that the highly clonal E. crassipes exhibits lower clonal diversity and weaker genetic structure compared to the moderately clonal E. azurea.
Many eukaryotic organisms reproduce by sexual and asexual reproduction. Genetic diversity in populations can be strongly dependent on the relative importance of these two reproductive modes. Here, we compare the amounts and patterns of genetic diversity in related water hyacinths that differ in their propensity for clonal propagation - highly clonal Eichhornia crassipes and moderately clonal E. azurea (Pontederiaceae). Our comparisons involved genotype-by-sequencing (GBS) of 137 E. crassipes ramets from 60 locations (193,495 nucleotide sites) and 118 E. azurea ramets from 53 locations (198,343 nucleotide sites) among six hydrological basins in central South America, the native range of both species. We predicted that because of more prolific clonal propagation, E. crassipes would exhibit lower clonal diversity than E. azurea. This prediction was supported by all measures of clonal diversity that we examined. Eichhornia crassipes also had a larger excess of heterozygotes at variant sites, another signature of clonality. However, genome-wide heterozygosity was not significantly different between the species. Eichhornia crassipes had weaker spatial genetic structure and lower levels of differentiation among hydrological basins than E. azurea, probably because of higher clonality and more extensive dispersal of its free-floating life form. Our findings for E. crassipes contrast with earlier studies from the invasive range which have reported very low levels of clonal diversity and extensive geographic areas of genetic uniformity.

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