“…This pattern agrees with recent findings (reviewed in Bailey et al, 2003) that intra-individual polymorphism is much more frequent than previously thought (Baldwin et al, 1995). Generally, three main sources of intra-individual polymorphisms are recognized: hybridization (Kaplan and Fehrer, 2007;Záveská Drábková et al, 2009;Hirschegger et al, 2010;Jacob and Blattner, 2010;Šingliarová et al, 2011), ancestral polymorphism (Pamilo and Nei, 1988;Muir and Schlötterer, 2005) or presence of pseudogenes (Buckler and Holtsford, 1996;Kita and Ito, 2000;Mayol and Rosselló, 2001). In our case, the presence of pseudogene(s) can be ruled out, as cloned sequences showed no long indels, mutations in coding 5.8 S rDNA were extremely rare, the G-C content was in the range 56.1-57.4% and the ribotypes showed normal secondary structure (data not shown).…”