Reciprocal hybrid formation of Spartina in San Francisco Bay

@article{Anttila2000ReciprocalHF,
  title={Reciprocal hybrid formation of Spartina in San Francisco Bay},
  author={C K Anttila and R. Andrew King and Colin Ferris and Debra R. Ayres and Donald R. Strong},
  journal={Molecular Ecology},
  year={2000},
  volume={9}
}
Diversity in the tRNALEU1 intron of the chloroplast genome of Spartina was used to study hybridization of native California cordgrass, Spartina foliosa, with S. alterniflora, introduced to San Francisco Bay ≈ 25 years ago. We sequenced 544 bases of the tRNALEU1 intron and found three polymorphic sites, a pyrimidine transition at site 126 and transversions at sites 382 and 430. Spartina from outside of San Francisco Bay, where hybridization between these species is impossible, gave cpDNA… 
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