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Genetic structure in aquatic bladderworts: clonal propagation and hybrid perpetuation.
Annals of botany - 1 Nov 2006
Kameyama Yoshiaki, Ohara Masashi
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The free-floating aquatic bladderwort Utricularia australis f. australis is a sterile F(1) hybrid of U. australis f. tenuicaulis and U. macrorhiza. However, co-existence of the hybrids and parental species has not been observed. In the present study, the following questions are addressed. (a) Does the capacity of the two parental species to reproduce sexually contribute to higher genotypic...
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