A. Wojnickapoltorak et al., INTERSPECIFIC AND INTRASPECIFIC SEROLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS IN PELLIA-EPIPHYLLA COMPLEX, Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 66(3-4), 1997, pp. 365-370
Antigenic proteins were used as markers for the study of relationships
between three liverwort species from P. epiphylla complex. It has rec
ently been shown that the electrophoretic phenotypes of this species s
uggested an amphiploid origin of P. borealis. Two sibling species: P.
epiphylla -species S and -species N could have probably represented th
e parental species for P. borealis. We examined three clones of P. bor
ealis from different localities using immunodiffusion. Then we compare
d them with P. epiphylla species S and N as well as with the mixture o
f proteins of P. epiphylla S and N samples. The results indicate that
polyploid P. borealis shows an identical immunological pattern to that
of the mixture of proteins of putative parental species. Only in one
case the result resembled much more the pattern of P. epiphylla S prot
eins. The sibling species P. epiphylla S and N showed antigenic differ
ence but the nature of the differences requires further studies. Antig
enic properties of proteins from P. epiphylla S and N and of their all
opolyploid -P. borealis, indicated some specifity of the protein spect
rum in each of the parental species and intermediate character of prot
eins in the polyploid forms.