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Plant-parasitic nematodes of the genus Meloidogyne are known to reproduce either by cross-fertilization (amphimixis), facultative meiotic parthenogenesis or obligatory mitotic parthenogenesis. Among them, M. incognita, M. arenaria and M. javanica are obligatory mitotic parthenogenetic species, while M. hapla can reproduce by both cross-fertilization and meiotic parthenogenesis. Phylogenetic relationships in this genus have been investigated by hybridization of BamHI-digested genomic DNAs of 18 geographical isolates belonging to six species with three homologous repeated DNA probes cloned at random from a genomic library of one population of M. incognita. Due to the repetitive nature of the probes, the autoradiograms exhibited extensive restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) both between and within nematode species. Genetic distance values estimated from hybridization patterns were analysed by two phylogenetic tree-building distance methods, respectively based on constant (UPGMA) and varying (FITCH) rates of nucleotide substitution, and the resulting dendrograms showed a very similar clustering of species and populations. Comparison of these results with the other sources of phylogenetic data available for this genus, i.e. cytogenetic, isoenzymatic and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) data, revealed consistency with all but the mtDNA phylogeny. Due to the maternal inheritance of mtDNA, and the parthenogenetic reproductive mode of these organisms, which excludes any possibility of horizontal transfer, we conclude that nuclear DNA phylogeny should represent a more likely evolutionary history of this particular genus, and that interspecific hybridizations between sexual ancestors may account for the results with mtDNA. Thus the early split off of the mitotically parthenogenetic species cluster and M. hapla confirms the amphimictic ancestral mode of reproduction of root-knot nematodes. Moreover, the existence of polymorphism within each species at the repeated DNA level is discussed in relation to the adaptative evolution of these parthenogenetic species.
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Castagnone-Sereno, P., Piotte, C., Uijthof, J. et al. Phylogenetic relationships between amphimictic and parthenogenetic nematodes of the genus Meloidogyne as inferred from repetitive DNA analysis. Heredity 70, 195–204 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1993.29
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