Conservation genetics of Ireland's sole population of the River water crowfoot (Ranunculus fluitans Lam.)

Abstract

Highlights penicillatus, despite previous anecdotal reports of the occurrence of hybrids. Although the population currently exhibits healthy levels of genetic diversity and is not at risk of genetic assimilation via hybridization with R. penicillatus, it still remains vulnerable to other factors such as stochastic events and invasive species.

Relationship Between Genetic and Environmental Characteristics of Lithuanian Populations of Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum Salicaria)

“…Already three decades molecular methods remain among the most reliable tools for information sets about population diversity issues (Guichoux et al, 2011). Inter simple sequence repeats (ISSR), microsatellites (SSR) and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers are the most frequently used tools for examination of genetic diversity of populations of macrophytes (Lambertini et al, 2010;Anderson et al, 2018;Vyšniauskienė et al, 2020;Fan et al, 2021), as well as for detection of introgression (Bradley et al, 2013;Butkuvienė et al, 2017), linking phenotyphic plasticity to genetic variation (Wennersten & Forsman, 2012;Forsman, 2014). Before initiation of present study, American populations of L. salicaria were tested employing AFLP markers, and related data concerning genetic diversity of this species in Europe were limited to West regions (Houghton-Thompson et al, 2005;Chun et al, 2009).…”

Comparison of the effectiveness of ISJ and SSR markers and detection of outlier loci in conservation genetics ofPulsatilla patenspopulations

“…Various categories of genetic markers are used for this purpose: allozymes (Krzakowa & Michalak, 2007; López-Pujol, Zhang & Ge, 2008; Trapnell, Hamrick & Negrón-Ortiz, 2012; Dostálek, Münzbergová & Plačková, 2014), amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers (Jian et al, 2010; Cires, Cuesta & Fernández Prieto, 2013; Wróblewska, 2013), random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers (Wróblewska et al, 2003; Hensen, Oberprieler & Wesche, 2005; Hensen et al, 2010), restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) markers (Schlögl, Souza & Nodari, 2007; Jadwiszczak et al, 2012; Jian & Zhu, 2013), inter simple sequence repeats (ISSR) markers (Buczkowska et al, 2010; Cires, Cuesta & Fernández Prieto, 2013; Gaafar, Al-Qurainy & Khan, 2014; Lopes et al, 2014) and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers (Bradley et al, 2013; Cipollini et al, 2013; Olsson & Korpelainen, 2013). These markers enable estimation of important genetic variation parameters (allelic richness, heterozygosity H , fixation index F is , pairwise F ST ).…”

Genetic structure of the submersed Ranunculus baudotii (sect. Batrachium ) population in a lowland stream in Denmark

“…For com-parison, the gene diversity (h) of outcrossing populations of R. fluitans and R. penicillatus ssp. pseudofluitans found in a study of Irish streams was about the double of the R. baudotii population in River Aarhus (Bradley et al, 2013), despite similar levels of AFLP polymorphisms in the two studies. Genetic diversity was one order of magnitude higher also in R. baudotii populations in the Tuscan archipelago (Italy) in a study based on ISSRs (Coppi et al, 2015).…”