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Citation for Study 14193

About Citation title: "Evolutionary consequences of putative intra- and interspecific hybridization in agaric fungi.".
About Study name: "Evolutionary consequences of putative intra- and interspecific hybridization in agaric fungi.".
About This study is part of submission 14193 (Status: Published).

Citation

Hughes K., Petersen R., Lodge D.J., Bergemann S.E., Baumgartner K., Tulloss R.E., Lickey E., & Cifuentes J. 2013. Evolutionary consequences of putative intra- and interspecific hybridization in agaric fungi. Mycologia, .

Authors

  • Hughes K.
  • Petersen R.
  • Lodge D.J.
  • Bergemann S.E.
  • Baumgartner K.
  • Tulloss R.E.
  • Lickey E.
  • Cifuentes J.

Abstract

Abstract: Agaric fungi of the southern Appalachians including the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are often heterozygous for the rDNA internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) with >42% of collections showing some level of heterozygosity for indels and/or base-pair substitutions. For these collections, intra-individual haplotype divergence is typically less than 2%, but for 3% of these collections, intra-individual haplotype divergence exceeds that figure. We hypothesize that high intra-individual haplotype divergence is due to hybridization between agaric fungi with divergent haplotypes, possibly migrants from geographically isolated glacial refugia. Four species with relatively high haplotype divergence were examined: Armillaria mellea, Amanita citrina f. lavendula, Gymnopus dichrous and the Hygrocybe flavescens/chlorophana complex. The ITS region was sequenced, haplotypes of heterozygotes were resolved through cloning, and phylogenetic analyses were used to determine the outcome of hybridization events. Within Armillaria mellea and Amanita citrina f. lavendula, we found evidence of interbreeding and recombination. Within G. dichrous and H. flavescens/ chlorophana, hybrids were identified but there was no evidence for F2 or higher progeny in natural populations suggesting that the hybrid fruitbodies may be an evolutionary dead end and that the genetically divergent Mendelian populations from which they were derived are, in fact, different species. The association between levels of ITS haplotype divergence of less than 5% (Armillaria mellea = 2.6% excluding gaps; Amanita citrina f. lavendula = 3.3%) with the presence of putative recombinants and greater than 5% (Gymnopus dichrous=5.7%; Hygrocybe flavescens/chlorophana=14.1%) with apparent failure of F1 hybrids to produce F2 or higher progeny in populations may suggest a correlation between genetic distance and reproductive isolation.

Keywords

biodiversity, Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibility, hybridization, speciation

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