All populations on the Apennine Peninsula (pop. 1 to 8) and four populations (pop. 9 to 12) from the North-East of Sicily presented only B. balearicus haplotypes.
Both populations (POP 1 and POP 2) were challenged with the same strain of SAV, SAV3, which is the most abundant strain in Norway (Hodneland et al., 2005).
'Dr. Davis', 'F8, 1-42' and 'Georgia Belle' were sequenced to add SNPs segregating in two breeding populations, Pop DF ('Dr. Davis' × 'F8, 1-42') and Pop DG ('Dr. Davis' × 'Georgia Belle').
The relationship between genetic differentiation and geographic distance is strong and significant in both species when dropping the three populations (pop.
Three parents, 'Dr. Davis' (DD), 'F8, 1-42' (F8), and 'Georgia Belle' (GB) were used to produce two breeding populations, Pop DF ('Dr. Davis' × 'F8, 1-42') and Pop DG ('Dr. Davis' × 'Georgia Belle').
We used 440 F3:4 inbred lines from two biparental populations (Pop-A, Pop-B) fingerprinted with about 800 to 900 SNP, SSR and/or DArT markers and outcrossed them to a tester for phenotyping.
Means of parents (1 = Lo115, 2 = Lo90 in Pop-A and Lo117 in Pop-B, respectively) and each of 220 testcross progenies of two populations (Pop-A, Pop-B), estimates of variance components (genotype, σ G ; genotype x environment interaction, σ GxE ; error, σ e ), and entry-mean heritabilities (h) for agronomic and quality traits evaluated across six to ten environments.
At generation ~200, SUL1 amplification was present at high frequency in four of the six populations (80 98% of clones) and had apparently become fixed in two populations (Pop 2 and 7; Figure 6).
Within populations, a negative association between kinship and geographic distance in the female shoots could be detected in one out of four populations (pop CK, which also had the strongest differentiation between colonies, ΦPT).
Results for trait differences between measurement events (Measure), 2006 and 2007 West Atlantic sperm traits (Year), among spawnings within an individual (Spawn), among individuals within populations (Pacific, West Atlantic, East Atlantic), and among populations (Pop).
