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Species status of hybridizing oaks

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  • Graham Muir

    (Department of Applied Plant Science Queen's University of Belfast
    Institut für Tierzucht und Genetik, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien)

  • Colin C. Fleming

    (Department of Applied Plant Science Queen's University of Belfast)

  • Christian Schltterer

    (Institut für Tierzucht und Genetik, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien)

Abstract

The two widespread species of oak tree in Europe, Quercus robur L. and Q. petraea (Matt.) Liebl., hybridize extensively, calling their taxonomic status into question. Here we use microsatellite DNA, a highly informative genetic marker, to show that Q. robur and Q. petraea are discrete taxonomic units despite this intensive hybridization. Furthermore, individual oaks can be assigned to separate species.

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  • Graham Muir & Colin C. Fleming & Christian Schltterer, 2000. "Species status of hybridizing oaks," Nature, Nature, vol. 405(6790), pages 1016-1016, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:405:y:2000:i:6790:d:10.1038_35016640
    DOI: 10.1038/35016640
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    1. Noemí López-González & Santiago Andrés-Sánchez & Blanca M Rojas-Andrés & M Montserrat Martínez-Ortega, 2018. "Divide and conquer! Data-mining tools and sequential multivariate analysis to search for diagnostic morphological characters within a plant polyploid complex (Veronica subsect. Pentasepalae, Plantagin," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(6), pages 1-27, June.

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