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Asymmetric Hybridization in Cattails (Typha spp.) and Its Implications for the Evolutionary Maintenance of Native Typha latifolia.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jul 2017
Pieper Sara J, Nicholls Allison A, Freeland Joanna R, Dorken Marcel E
Abstract excerpt
Cattails (Typha spp.) have become an increasingly dominant component of wetlands in eastern North America and this dominance is largely attributable to the high frequency of Typha × glauca, the hybrid of native Typha latifolia and putatively introduced Typha angustifolia. Hybridization in this group is asymmetric, with T. angustifolia nearly always the maternal parent of F1 hybrids. However, the magnitude of...
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