MICHÁLKOVÁ, Ester, Jakub ŠMERDA, Klára PLAČKOVÁ, Aleš KNOLL and Petr BUREŠ. Hybridization may endanger the rare North Apennine endemic Cirsium bertolonii. Plant Systematics and Evolution. Springer, 2023, vol. 309, No 3, p. 1-21. ISSN 0378-2697. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00606-023-01854-2.
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Original name Hybridization may endanger the rare North Apennine endemic Cirsium bertolonii
Authors MICHÁLKOVÁ, Ester (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jakub ŠMERDA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Klára PLAČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Aleš KNOLL (203 Czech Republic) and Petr BUREŠ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Plant Systematics and Evolution, Springer, 2023, 0378-2697.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10611 Plant sciences, botany
Country of publisher Austria
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 1.900 in 2022
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/23:00130984
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00606-023-01854-2
UT WoS 000994303600001
Keywords in English Asteraceae; Flow cytometry; Genome size; Genomic GC content; Gynodioecy; Homoploid hybridization
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Changed by Changed by: prof. RNDr. Petr Bureš, Ph.D., učo 2635. Changed: 6/1/2024 00:20.
Abstract
We examined populations of North Apennine stenoendemics Cirsium bertolonii in the Apuan Alps and Tuscan-Emilian Apennines and found individuals morphologically shifted to co-occurring C. acaulon or C. erisithales. Hybrid status of these intermediates was confirmed by flow cytometry, morphometrics and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP). We interpreted these hybrids taxonomically as Cirsium xsagrense (C. acaulon x C. bertolonii) and C. xabetonense (C. bertolonii x C. erisithales). Estimated genome size (2C) was 2244 +/- 31 Mbp for C. xsagrense and 2152 +/- 99 Mbp for C. xabetonense. Their genomic GC content was 38.95 +/- 0.35% and 38.77 +/- 0.26%, respectively. Diploid chromosome number 2n = 34 was counted for C. bertolonii, and the previously reported 2n = 12 needs to be considered erroneous. We found C. bertolonii to be a gynodioecious species (like many other Cirsium species) that is not reproductively isolated by ploidy level or chromosome number from co-occurring congeners. The relatively frequent occurrence of C. xsagrense in Monte Sagro (locus classicus of C. bertolonii) and the prevalence of C. xabetonense in Alpe Tre Potenze suggest that hybridization occurs repeatedly in C. bertolonii, as also confirmed by older herbarium specimens. C. xabetonense produces ripe achenes and F2 hybrids or backcrosses, as some other Cirsium hybrids do. Genetic erosion/swamping via interspecific hybridization can therefore pose a risk to the genetic integrity of C. bertolonii, as it does for some other narrowly endemic high-mountain Cirsium species in Europe.
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GA20-15989S, research and development projectName: Evoluce velikosti genomu - centromerický drajv v nové roli (Acronym: Centrogenomtah)
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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