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Adil GÜNER, Vehbi ESER - optima

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CONSEQUENCES OF NATURAL HYBRIDIZATION IN<br />

GEOPHYTES: DISENTANGLING THE ORIGIN OF ORPHAN<br />

HYBRID POPULATIONS IN NARCISSUS<br />

Isabel MARQUES 1,2 ; Gonzalo Nieto FELINER 2 ; David DRAPER 3 ; Amélia Martins-<br />

LOUÇÃO 1 and Javier Fuertes AGUILAR 2<br />

1 Universidade de Lisboa. Museu Nacional de História Natural. Jardim Botânico. Rua da Escola Politécnica 58.<br />

1280-102 Lisboa. Portugal.; icmarques@fc.ul.pt<br />

2 Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC. Plaza de Murillo, 2. 28014 Madrid. Spain.<br />

3 Dpto. Biologia Vegetal. E.T.S. Ingenieros Agrónomos. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Av. Complutense s/n<br />

28040 Madrid. Spain.<br />

Different factors determine the evolutionary fate of hybridization events. Ploidy changes, spatial<br />

dynamics of hybridizing processes (e.g., hybrid zone), degree of internal reproductive barriers,<br />

viability of F1 hybrids, the availability of new or intermediate niches to colonize, the<br />

phylogenetic proximity of hybridizing species and the fitness of hybrid lineages are among the<br />

most important. In the case of geophyte species, an additional factor is its ability to propagate<br />

clonally so that even low fertility hybrids can persist for years. In this work, the complex nature<br />

of the Iberian natural hybrid Narcissus ×perezlarae is clarified. Four organellar and one nuclear<br />

sequence markers reveal that it actually consists of two different hybrid taxa, Narcissus<br />

×perezlarae (N. cavanillesii × N. miniatus) and N. ×alentejanus (N. cavanillesii × N. serotinus),<br />

the mother species being predominantly N. cavanillesii. This framework is also supported by<br />

cytogenetic information, genome size and artificial crosses. Throughout their ranges, dissimilar<br />

situations are found across populations from this polytopic hybrid complex: sympatric<br />

populations without hybrids, sympatric populations where hybrids occur, and populations where<br />

hybrids occur but their parents are lacking (‘orphan hybrid populations’). We provide evidence<br />

based on ecological niche modeling and molecular evidence supporting that the most likely cause<br />

for this pattern is extirpation of N. cavanillesii via demographic swamping and competition.<br />

Keywords:Parental extirpation, niche competition, cpDNA, mtDNA, ITS, niche<br />

modeling.<br />

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