Université de Fribourg

Admixture mapping of quantitative traits in Populus hybrid zones: power and limitations

Lindtke, Dorothea ; González-Martínez, S. C. ; Macaya-Sanz, David ; Lexer, Christian

In: Heredity, 2013, p. -

Uncovering the genetic architecture of species differences is of central importance for understanding the origin and maintenance of biological diversity. Admixture mapping can be used to identify the number and effect sizes of genes that contribute to the divergence of ecologically important traits, even in taxa that are not amenable to laboratory crosses because of their long generation time or...

Université de Fribourg

Phylogeography of Populus alba (L.) and Populus tremula (L.) in Central Europe: secondary contact and hybridisation during recolonisation from disconnected refugia

Fussi, Barbara ; Lexer, Christian ; Heinze, Berthold

In: Tree Genetics & Genomes, 2010, vol. 6, no. 3, p. 439-450

The central aim of this paper is to clarify the picture of postglacial recolonisation and the reconstruction of refugia of Populus alba (L.) and Populus tremula (L.) in the light of hybridisation of the two species. We focussed our study on Central and Southeastern Europe including reference samples from Spain, Sweden and Northern Africa.We investigated 414 individuals of 26 populations using...