What is it about?
Sometimes the chemical and genetic composition of a plant species match, but other times they don't. We compared both characteristics in Mexican populations of the weed Mikania micrantha and found that each marker provides complementary, rather than redundant, information.
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Why is it important?
Our results underscore the importance of analyzing both characteristics when searching for potential biological control agents of invasive weeds in the native distribution.
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I hope this article serves two purposes: 1) as a reminder of the importance of not using neutral markers as surrogates for adaptive traits, 2) as a base for understanding the geographic patterns of other species distributed along the tropical areas of Mexico.
Angel E Bravo-Monzón
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
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This page is a summary of: Spatial structure of genetic and chemical variation in native populations of the mile-a-minute weed Mikania micrantha, Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, February 2018, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.bse.2017.11.008.
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