Abstract
A file was erroneously omitted from the list of Supporting Information. The description is 'Datafiles for High rates of gene flow by pollen and seed in oak populations across Europe paper' and can be viewed here: http://plosone.org/corrections/pone.0085130.s004.cn.zip
Highlights
Plants are static organisms whereas their genes are often highly mobile
For each stand and paternity assignment, we used the most successful test in terms of percentages of correct father choice (Cfc) and of father correctly assigned among the assigned paternities (Pca)
The quality of the tests varied among stands, but in most cases correct choices were . 80%. a and b errors were less than 5% except in two cases for each parameter (Italy and Great Britain for a, Sweden and Switzerland for b)
Summary
Plants are static organisms whereas their genes are often highly mobile. Gene flow predominantly occurs through dispersal of both seed and pollen, and the contemporary distribution of neutral genetic diversity across the landscape is largely, though not entirely, due to the extent and relative importance of these two dispersal processes [1]. Detailed studies of local gene flow performed in both pure and mixed stands of European white oaks indicate that pollen immigration into stands is generally high but very variable between studies [4,5,6,7,8,9]. Our aim was to measure the extent of gene flow in white oaks (Quercus robur (pedunculate oak, 73.5% of the total tree sample), Q. petraea (sessile oak, 23%), Q. pubescens (pubescent oak, 2%), Q. faginea (Portuguese oak, 1.5%)) in eight stands distributed throughout the species’ natural ranges across Europe, using the same molecular markers to perform paternity and parentage analyses. Stands with more than one species of oak are not common across Europe, which constrained the choice of woods available for this study. We expected to control the heterogeneity across different ecological, demographic and sampling settings to enable general conclusions to be drawn
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