期刊
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY
卷 25, 期 21, 页码 5330-5344出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13850
关键词
clonality; hybrid zone; Iberian Peninsula; Populus spp.; specific ancestry
资金
- FPI fellowship of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education [BES-2006-13132]
- 'Ramon y Cajal' fellowship of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) [RYC2009-04537]
- European Community [328146, 329088]
- Spanish National Plan for Science, project ReproFor [AGL2005-07440-C02-01]
- UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
Asexual reproduction is a common and fundamental mode of reproduction in plants. Although persistence in adverse conditions underlies most known cases of clonal dominance, proximal genetic drivers remain unclear, in particular for populations dominated by a few large clones. In this study, we studied a clonal population of the riparian tree Populus alba in the Douro river basin (northwestern Iberian Peninsula) where it hybridizes with Populus tremula, a species that grows in highly contrasted ecological conditions. We used 73 nuclear microsatellites to test whether genomic background (species ancestry) is a relevant cause of clonal success, and to assess the evolutionary consequences of clonal dominance by a few genets. Additional genotyping-by-sequencing data were produced to estimate the age of the largest clones. We found that a few ancient (over a few thousand years old) and widespread genets dominate the population, both in terms of clone size and number of sexual offspring produced. Interestingly, large clones possessed two genomic regions introgressed from P. tremula, which may have favoured their spread under stressful environmental conditions. At the population level, the spread of large genets was accompanied by an overall ancient (>0.1 Myr) but soft decline of effective population size. Despite this decrease, and the high clonality and dominance of sexual reproduction by large clones, the Douro hybrid zone still displays considerable genetic diversity and low inbreeding. This suggests that even in extreme cases as in the Douro, asexual and sexual dominance of a few large, geographically extended individuals does not threaten population survival.
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