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Invasion of diverse habitats by few Japanese knotweed genotypes is correlated with epigenetic differentiation.
Ecology letters - 1 Sept 2012
Richards Christina L, Schrey Aaron W, Pigliucci Massimo
Abstract excerpt
The expansion of invasive species challenges our understanding of the process of adaptation. Given that the invasion process often entails population bottlenecks, it is surprising that many invasives appear to thrive even with low levels of sequence-based genetic variation. Using Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) and methylation sensitive-AFLP (MS-AFLP) markers, we tested the hypothesis that...
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