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Can clone size serve as a proxy for clone age? An exploration using microsatellite divergence in Populus tremuloides.
Molecular ecology - 1 Nov 2008
Ally D, Ritland K, Otto S P
Abstract excerpt
In long-lived clonal plants, the overall size of a clone is often used to estimate clone age. The size of a clone, however, might be largely determined by physical or biotic interactions, obscuring the relationship between clone size and age. Here, we use the accumulation of mutations at 14 microsatellite loci to estimate clone age in trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) from southwestern Canada. We show that...
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