Université de Fribourg

Molecular biogeography of prickly lettuce (lactuca serriola l.) shows traces of recent range expansion

D’Andrea, Luigi ; Meirmans, Patrick ; Wiel, Clemens van de ; Guadagnuolo, Roberto ; Treuren, Robbert van ; Kozlowski, Gregor ; Nijs, Hans den ; Felber, François

In: Journal of Heredity, 2017, vol. 108, no. 2, p. 194–206

Prickly lettuce (Lactuca serriola L., Asteraceae), a wild relative of cultivated lettuce, is an autogamous species which greatly expanded throughout Western and Northern Europe during the last 2 centuries. Here, we present a large-scale biogeographic genetic analysis performed on a dataset represented by 2622 individuals from 110 wild European populations. Thirty-two maternally inherited...