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- Title
Population genetic structures of two ecologically distinct species Betula platyphylla and B. ermanii inferred based on nuclear and chloroplast DNA markers.
- Authors
Wang, Hua‐Ying; Yin, Xiao; Yin, Dong‐Xu; Li, Lin; Xiao, Hong‐Xing
- Abstract
Climatic oscillations during the last glacial maximum (LGM) significantly affected the distribution patterns and genetic structure of extant plants. Northeast China (NEC) is a major biodiversity center in East Asia, and the influence of historical climate change on NEC populations is critical for understanding species responses to future climate change. However, only a few phylogeographic studies of cool temperate deciduous tree species have been conducted in the area, and results are inconsistent for species with different niches or distribution areas. We employed multiple chloroplast and nuclear markers to investigate the genetic structure of two ecologically contrasting species, Betula platyphylla and B. ermanii, in NEC. Rare haplotypes were identified in the chloroplast genome of these species, and both exhibited high levels of nucleotide diversity based on a fragment of the nuclear gene G3PDH and microsatellites. Moreover, significant phylogeographic structure was detected for B. platyphylla, suggesting that these populations had recolonized from independent glacial refuges, whereas no genetic structure was found for B. ermanii. OPEN RESEARCH BADGES: The nSSR datasets used in the current study and the table of pairwise FST (below diagonal) and its standardized F'ST (above diagonal) among 25 populations based on seven SSRs are available from the Dryad (DOI: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.230d176). Sequences generated from this study were deposited in GenBank under Accession nos. KY199568–KY200162 and MK819541–MK819970.
- Subjects
CHINA; EAST Asia; CHLOROPLAST DNA; NUCLEAR DNA; GENETIC markers; LAST Glacial Maximum; BIRCH; SPECIES
- Publication
Ecology & Evolution (20457758), 2019, Vol 9, Issue 19, p11406
- ISSN
2045-7758
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ece3.5643