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dc.contributor.authorVega, Yesenia-
dc.contributor.authorMarques, Isabel-
dc.contributor.authorCastro, Sílvia-
dc.contributor.authorLoureiro, J.-
dc.date.accessioned2014-04-30T10:17:10Z-
dc.date.available2014-04-30T10:17:10Z-
dc.date.issued2013-
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10316/25631-
dc.description.abstractHybridization has the potential to contribute to phenotypic and genetic variation and can be a major evolutionary mechanism. However, when hybridization is extensive it can also lead to the blurring of species boundaries and the emergence of cryptic species (i.e., two or more species not distinguishable morphologically). In this study, we address this hypothesis in Epidendrum, the largest Neotropical genus of orchids where hybridization is apparently so common that it may explain the high levels of morphological diversity found. Nonetheless, this hypothesis is mostly based on the intermediacy of morphological characters and intermediacy by itself is not a proof of hybridization. Therefore, in this study, we first assessed the existence of hybrids using cpDNA and AFLP data gathered from a large-scale sampling comprising 1038 plants of three species of Epidendrum (E. calanthum, E. cochlidium and E. schistochilum). Subsequently, a Bayesian assignment of individuals into different genetic classes (pure species, F1, F2 or backcross generations) revealed that hybrid genotypes were prevalent in all sympatric populations. In most cases, parental species were not assigned as pure individuals, rather consisting in backcrossed genotypes or F1 hybrids. We also found that reproductive barriers are apparently very weak in Epidendrum because the three species largely overlapped in their flowering periods and interspecific crosses always produced viable seeds. Further, hybridization contributed to enhance floral variability, genome size and reproductive success since we found that these traits were always higher in hybrid classes (F1, F2 and backcrosses) than in pure parental species, and offer an explanation for the blurring of species boundaries in this genus of orchids. We hypothesize that these natural hybrids possess an evolutionary advantage, which may explain the high rates of cryptic species observed in this genus.por
dc.description.sponsorshipUTPL financed the work of IM though a postdoctoral grant (PROY-CBCM-0021) and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and European Social Funds financed the work of SC (FCT/SFRH/BPD/41200/2007).por
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.rightsopenAccesspor
dc.titleOutcomes of Extensive Hybridization and Introgression in Epidendrum (Orchidaceae): Can We Rely on Species Boundaries?por
dc.typearticlepor
degois.publication.firstPageArtigo e80662por
degois.publication.issue11por
degois.publication.titlePLoS ONEpor
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0080662por
dc.peerreviewedYespor
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0080662-
degois.publication.volume8por
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item.languageiso639-1en-
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crisitem.author.researchunitCFE - Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet-
crisitem.author.orcid0000-0002-7358-6685-
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