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Data from: Can clone size serve as a proxy for clone age? An exploration using microsatellite divergence in Populus tremuloides Ally, Dilara; Ritland, Kermit; Otto, Sarah P.

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In long-lived clonal plant species, the overall size of a clone has previously been used to estimate clone age. The size of a clone, however, might be largely determined by physical or biotic interactions, obscuring the relationship between clone size and age. Here, we use the accumulation of mutations at 14 microsatellite loci to estimate clone age in trembling aspen, Populus tremuloides, from southwestern Canada. We show that the observed patterns of genetic divergence are consistent with a model of clonal growth, allowing us to use pairwise genetic divergence as an estimator of clone age. In the populations studied, clone size did not exhibit a significant relationship with microsatellite divergence, indicating that clone size is not a good proxy for clone age.
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Title	Data from: Can clone size serve as a proxy for clone age? An exploration using microsatellite divergence in Populus tremuloides
Creator	Ally, Dilara; Ritland, Kermit; Otto, Sarah P.
Date Issued	2021-05-19
Description	Abstract In long-lived clonal plant species, the overall size of a clone has previously been used to estimate clone age. The size of a clone, however, might be largely determined by physical or biotic interactions, obscuring the relationship between clone size and age. Here, we use the accumulation of mutations at 14 microsatellite loci to estimate clone age in trembling aspen, Populus tremuloides, from southwestern Canada. We show that the observed patterns of genetic divergence are consistent with a model of clonal growth, allowing us to use pairwise genetic divergence as an estimator of clone age. In the populations studied, clone size did not exhibit a significant relationship with microsatellite divergence, indicating that clone size is not a good proxy for clone age.; Usage notes SSR_Data_11905036MEC-08-0315.R1
Subject	Other; Populus tremuloides; Evolutionary Theory; Ecological Genetics
Geographic Location	Canada; Alberta; British Columbia
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Notes	Dryad version number: 1 Version status: submitted Dryad curation status: Published Sharing link: https://datadryad.org/stash/share/M3yRWXnGefyr4WmNoLxVeZbls2PbBnkM08t25aDi16k</p> Storage size: 197333 Visibility: public
Date Available	2020-06-24
Provider	University of British Columbia Library
License	CC0 1.0
DOI	10.14288/1.0397541
URI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/3ZBZY7
Publisher DOI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/3ZBZY7; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7898
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
Aggregated Source Repository	Dataverse

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