“…In purely clonal populations, each individual cell would be expected to comprise a mixture of intragenomic variants in equal proportions. However, infrequent recombination (Thornhill et al, ) and/or somatic mutations (van Oppen, Souter, Howells, Heyward, & Berkelmans, ) could result in unequal proportions of intragenomic variants across offspring generations (Wilkinson, Fisher, van Oppen, & Davy, ). For example, the co‐occurrence of C3 and C3gulf may represent recombination between distinct lineages, with functional differences among purebred, hybrid and backcross generations (Wilkinson et al, ).…”