title: Testing hybridization hypotheses and evaluating the evolutionary potential of hybrids in mangrove plant species.
abstract: Natural hybridization is of marked importance from global to local biological diversity. In mangroves, species ranges overlap extensively with one another and species share a long overlap of flowering time. Although hybridization has been suggested, patterns of hybridization and the evolutionary potential of hybrids are not yet fully understood. This study provides molecular evidence for the parental origins and status of hybrids in the dominant mangrove genus Rhizophora based on comparisons of chloroplast and nuclear phylogenies and estimations of genetic relatedness and structure from inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) markers. Phylogenetic analyses indicate that almost all species can act as maternal parents to hybrids and that hybridization can be bidirectional. Bayesian analyses indicate that hybrids are simple F(1) s, and no trace of backcrossing was detected within populations. Hybridization, for the most part, occurs almost only locally and dispersal of hybrid individuals is limited beyond the hybrid sites.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
authors.forename: E Y Y
authors.initials: EYY
authors.lastname: Lo
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D018742:DNA, Chloroplast / Q000235:genetics*; D049810:Genetic Speciation; D006824:Hybridization, Genetic; D010802:Phylogeny; D043982:Rhizophoraceae / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D018742:DNA, Chloroplast
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