Table 2 Number of T. melanosporum fruitbodies included for genotyping and genetic analyses testing the contribution of the inoculum to the harvested fruitbodies (see the four hypotheses in Fig. 1c).
Site 1 | Site 2 | Site 3 | |
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MLG analyses | |||
Nb of analysed maternal individuals | 27 | 16 | 15 |
Nb of MLGs | 22 | 8 | 6 |
Nb of analysed paternal individuals | 19 | 18 | 12 |
Nb of MLGs | 19 | 18 | 12 |
Contribution of the gleba | |||
Paternal (H1)—comparison of MLGs | no | no | no |
Maternal (H2)—comparison of MLGs | no | no | no |
Contribution of the spores | |||
Paternal (H3)—Relatedness r (p-value) | 0.062 (0.132, ns) | − 0.041 (0.721, ns) | 0.417 (0, ***) |
Maternal (H4)—Relatedness r (p-value) | 0.033 (0.239, ns) | 0.052 (0.195, ns) | − 0.047 (0.698, ns) |