Abstract
The annual species Hypochoeris glabra (2n = 10) and the perennial H. radicata (2n = 8) hybridise readily in nature and in experiment. During meiosis in F1 hybrids the maximum association is a chain of seven and a bivalent indicating that at least three interchanges differentiate the two genomes. The nucleolar chromosomes in the two species are homologous and form a ring bivalent. They are, however, differentiated since in the F1 hybrid only one nucleolar-organiser region is expressed. Although chromosomal differentiation reduces the egg fertility of F1 hybrids to about 1%, viable backcross hybrids to H. radicata as pollen parent have been experimentally produced and occur in natural populations. Backcrosses with 8, 9 and rarely 13 chromosomes are found and those with 2n = 8 are fully interfertile with H. radicata. Gene flow may therefore take place in natural populations across an aneuploid barrier. The direction of gene flow in Hypochoeris is probably unidirectional from the annual to the perennial.
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Parker, J.S. Aneuploidy and isolation in two Hypochoeris species. Chromosoma 52, 89–101 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00285792
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00285792