Research Article

Assessing a Bayesian Approach for Detecting Exotic Hybrids between Plantation and Native Eucalypts

Table 4

The assignment of 15 putative eucalypt hybrid samples based on their mean q values, with q > 0.2 to indicate hybrid status under the two-way and six-way STRUCTURE analyses.

Putative hybrid samples Original classificationAssignment with two-way analysisAssignment with six-way analysis

E. camaldulensis × globulus
 Number 1 hybridE. globulus
 Number 2 hybridhybrid
 Number 3 hybridhybrid
 Number 4 hybridhybrid
E. cypellocarpa × globulus
 Number 1hybrid?hybridhybrid
 Number 2hybrid?hybridhybrid
 Number 3hybrid?hybridhybrid
 Number 4hybrid?hybridE. cypellocarpa
 Number 5hybrid?hybridhybrid
 Number 6 E. cypellocarpa E. cypellocarpa
 Number 7 E. cypellocarpa E. cypellocarpa
E. viminalis × globulus
 Number 1hybrid?hybridE. globulus
 Number 2hybrid?hybridE. globulus
 Number 3hybrid?hybridhybrid
 Number 4hybrid?E. globulus E. globulus

hybrid? = putative hybrid identified based on morphology from mature native forest trees, generation unknown; see Section 2 for more detail.