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Table 1 Glossary of terms used in this experiment study

From: Entangled effects of allelic and clonal (genotypic) richness in the resistance and resilience of experimental populations of the seagrass Zostera noltii to diatom invasion

Clonal lineage, or genet

A set of ramets issued from a single same event of sexual reproduction and resulting from the clonal growth of the single seed or zygote issued from this recombination event. Ramets belonging to the same clonal lineage bear the same multilocus genotype (MLG) or, if somatic mutations have occurred, ramets belong to the same multi-locus lineage (MLL)

Genotypic richness (= clonal richness)

Total number of distinct clones (MLGs or MLL s) within each experimental subplot

Genetic diversity

The genetic component of diversity. Estimates for genetic diversity can be allelic richness, the total number of alleles, or heterozygosity (unbiased). Here we focus on the estimate of genetic richness through Allelic richness  as the total number of alleles within each experimental subplot