Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
2823334 Infection, Genetics and Evolution 2010 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

Species delineation in parthenogenetic tropical species of Meloidogyne nematodes is particularly difficult although they are strictly apomictic. In fact, parthenogenesis in Meloidogyne nematodes is a recent phenomenon and the structure of the genetic diversity is mainly explained by crosses prior to the establishment of parthenogenesis. Under such hypothesis, increasing the size of a characterized sample by adding individuals should result in the decrease of the diversity structure. Twelve individuals from different geographical origins were added to the initial pool of 26 lines characterized in a previous study and an AFLP study was conducted on the whole set of 38 lines. As expected under the panmixy hypothesis, this resulted in a loss of genetic structure. This confirms thus that the genetic structure of tropical parthenogenetic Meloidogyne is due to crosses anterior to the establishment of apomixy.

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