TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of inbreeding depression on outcrossing rates among populations of a tropical pine
AU - Del Castillo, R. F.
AU - Trujillo, S.
PY - 2008/1
Y1 - 2008/1
N2 - • Inbreeding depression is common among plants and may distort mating system estimates. Mating system studies traditionally ignore this effect, nonetheless an assessment of inbreeding depression that may have occurred before progeny evaluation could be necessary. • In the neotropical Pinus chiapensis inbreeding depression was evaluated using regression analysis relating progeny F-values with seed germinability, the mating system was analysed in three populations with contrasting size, using isozymes, obtained a corrected outcrossing rate. • Selfing decreased seed viability by 19%, relative to an outcrossed plant. Multilocus outcrossing rates, tm, varied widely among populations. In the two smallest populations tm ≅ 1. Therefore, inbreeding depression did not affect the estimates, but overestimated tm by 10% in the third population, which has a true mixed mating system (selfing was the major source of inbreeding), and an unusually low tm for pines (tm = 0.54, uncorrected, t m = 0.49, corrected). • Inbreeding depression may be an uneven source of bias for outcrossing estimates even at the infraspecific level. Precision but not accuracy may be gained by including inbreeding depression in outcrossing estimates. Therefore, caution should be taken when comparing t m among species or even populations within the same species.
AB - • Inbreeding depression is common among plants and may distort mating system estimates. Mating system studies traditionally ignore this effect, nonetheless an assessment of inbreeding depression that may have occurred before progeny evaluation could be necessary. • In the neotropical Pinus chiapensis inbreeding depression was evaluated using regression analysis relating progeny F-values with seed germinability, the mating system was analysed in three populations with contrasting size, using isozymes, obtained a corrected outcrossing rate. • Selfing decreased seed viability by 19%, relative to an outcrossed plant. Multilocus outcrossing rates, tm, varied widely among populations. In the two smallest populations tm ≅ 1. Therefore, inbreeding depression did not affect the estimates, but overestimated tm by 10% in the third population, which has a true mixed mating system (selfing was the major source of inbreeding), and an unusually low tm for pines (tm = 0.54, uncorrected, t m = 0.49, corrected). • Inbreeding depression may be an uneven source of bias for outcrossing estimates even at the infraspecific level. Precision but not accuracy may be gained by including inbreeding depression in outcrossing estimates. Therefore, caution should be taken when comparing t m among species or even populations within the same species.
KW - Conifers
KW - Inbreeding depression
KW - Mating systems
KW - Outcrossing rates
KW - Pinus chiapensis
KW - Population size
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=37349104604&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02260.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02260.x
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 17995918
AN - SCOPUS:37349104604
SN - 0028-646X
VL - 177
SP - 517
EP - 524
JO - New Phytologist
JF - New Phytologist
IS - 2
ER -