I. VARIATION WITHIN AND AMONG POPULATIONS
I. VARIATION WITHIN AND AMONG POPULATIONS
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I. 人群内部和人群之间的差异
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1989
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D. L. Venable
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D. L. Venable
We document phenotypic and genetic variation within and among populations of the seed heteromorphic species Heterosperma pinnatum Cav. (Compositae) in the production of seed morphs and in a variety of life-history and morphological characteristics that might be correlated with seed and head traits. Each trait is found to have significant genetic variance in most or, usually, all populations. Significant among-population genetic variation exists for all traits except number of achenes per head and seedling shape, although some traits have much less genetic variation among than within populations. Number and percentage of intermediate achenes per head, total number of achenes per head, and lengths of central and peripheral achenes had little among- population genetic variation compared to within-population variation. Most traits had slightly less genetic variation among than within populations; however, some traits (percentage of central achenes, length of awns, date that the first flowering head opened, date that the first fruiting head opened, and death date) had more among-population genetic variation. The proportions of achene morphs produced had high broad-sense heritabilities and high among-population genetic variance, except in the case of intermediate achenes. All phenological variables had high among-population genetic variation. Within-population heritabilities were high for dates of first flowering head and fruiting head but low for death date and reproductive interval. Family and population means measured in the greenhouse for traits having high broad-sense heritability or among-population genetic variance were closely correlated with field means for the corresponding families or populations. The amounts of phenotypic variation were similar for traits that were measured in both the field and the greenhouse. These lines of evidence suggest that greenhouse results provide reasonable estimates of genetic variation in the field for this species. Numerous studies have reported variation in the proportion of seed morphs for different het- eromorphic-seeded species and have discussed adaptive scenarios for the evolution of seed pro- portions; however, our investigation is one of only a few that have documented the amount of phenotypic and genetic variation within and among populations.