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Franz Fritsche, and Oliver Kaltz

Is the Prunella (Lamiaceae) hybrid zone structured by an environmental gradient? Evidence from a reciprocaltransplant experiment
Am. J. Bot. 87: 995-1003.

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Is the Prunella (Lamiaceae) hybrid zone structured by an environmental gradient? Evidence from a reciprocaltransplant experiment¹

² Institut für Umweltwissenschaften der Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstr. 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland; ³ Botanisches Institut der Universität Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 6, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland; and ⁴ Laboratoire d'Evolution et Systématique, CNRS URA 2154, Université de Paris-Sud, Bât. 362, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France

ABSTRACT

Hybrid zones may be structured by environmentally independent selection against intrinsically unfit hybrids (tension zone models), or by environmentally dependent fitness differences among parental species and hybrids (ecological selection-gradient models). A 30-m slope in a mountain grassland harbors a hybrid zone of the clonal perennials, Prunella grandiflora and P. vulgaris (Lamiaceae), with P. grandiflora in the upper, P. vulgaris in the lower, and both parental species and P. grandiflora x P. vulgaris Hybrids in a narrow middle part. We found gradients for soil depth and water content, and vegetation height and biomass along the slope. A reciprocal transplant experiment yielded crossing reaction norms for vegetative reproduction. Parental species were locally adapted to their home sites, while the three taxa did not differ in vegetative reproduction in the Hybrid transplant site. Local adaptation for vegetative reproduction of P. grandiflora was mediated through higher survival and that of P. vulgaris through higher ramet number, indicating adaptation of their clonal growth strategies (phalanx vs. guerrilla) to the different habitats. Hybrid performance was intermediate between that of the parental species in all three sites, although Hybrids flowered more often than the parental species in the Hybrid site. Our results support ecological selection-gradient rather than tension zone models.

Key Words: clonal growth • hybrid superiority • Lamiaceae • local adaptation • phalanx vs. guerrilla growth • Prunella • species barriers

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