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Genetic variation and selfing rate in Lychnis flos-cuculi along an industrial pollution gradient.
The New phytologist - 1 Feb 2016
Dulya Olesya V, Mikryukov Vladimir S
Abstract excerpt
We studied nine populations of a meadow mixed-mating plant Lychnis flos-cuculi growing in a gradient of copper smelter emissions. We hypothesize that metal tolerant populations in the polluted areas have experienced a loss of genetic variation and are more selfing than the populations from the unpolluted areas. One hundred and thirty-five parental plants and 1059 offspring were genotyped with six microsatellite...
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