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O 47<br />

Geographic parthenogenesis and phylogeography in Hieracium<br />

alpinum L. (Asteraceae)<br />

Patrik Mráz 1,2 , Philippe Choler 1 , Jindřich Chrtek 3 , Delphine Rioux 1 & Pierre Taberlet 1<br />

1 Université Joseph Fourier, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, UMR UJF-CNRS 5553,<br />

PO Box 53, F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France; patrik.mraz@unifr.ch<br />

2 University <strong>of</strong> Fribourg, Unit <strong>of</strong> Ecology and Evolution, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland<br />

3 Institute <strong>of</strong> Botany, Academy <strong>of</strong> Sciences <strong>of</strong> the Czech Republic, CZ-25243<br />

Průhonice, Czech Republic<br />

Hieracium alpinum s.str. is an arcto-alpine species spreading from the far North<br />

(Greenland, Iceland, Scotland, Scandinavia, Northern Russia) to the southerlysituated<br />

European mountain system (Alps, Carpathians, Sudetes, Vosges, Vranica<br />

planina). While sexually reproducing diploids occur solely in the Eastern and<br />

Southern Carpathians, apomictic triploids cover the rest <strong>of</strong> the range. We used AFLP<br />

markers and ITS sequencing for inferring <strong>of</strong> genetic structure and origin <strong>of</strong><br />

geographical parthenogenesis in this species. AFLP data suggest polytopic origin <strong>of</strong><br />

triploid apomicts with almost no genetic relatedness to the recent diploids. Although<br />

triploid populations show usually very low genetic variation, several populations from<br />

Central Europe are very variable because they include genetically very distant<br />

clones. Past migration among different triploid populations and independent<br />

recolonization might explain the extant <strong>of</strong> genetic variation <strong>of</strong> some triploid<br />

populations in Central Europe. Northern populations consist virtually from only one or<br />

several closely related AFLP genotypes, suggesting very strong genetic bottleneck<br />

during postglacial recolonization <strong>of</strong> northern Europe. Genetic data, non-overlapping<br />

range <strong>of</strong> diploids and triploids, and occurrence <strong>of</strong> many closely-related microspecies<br />

within triploid range indicate that triploid plants <strong>of</strong> H. alpinum are likely not<br />

descendants <strong>of</strong> recent diploid populations, but rather they are remnants <strong>of</strong> extinct<br />

diploid lineages.<br />

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