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- Title
Gene flow in an endangered willow Salix hukaoana (Salicaceae) in natural and fragmented riparian landscapes.
- Authors
Kikuchi, Satoshi; Suzuki, Wajiro; Sashimura, Naoko
- Abstract
Salix hukaoana is an endangered riparian pioneer tree that is distributed within a restricted area of Japan. Microsatellite genetic variations and genetic structures were investigated in 80 subpopulations patchily distributed within five river basins with varying degrees of habitat fragmentation. The correlation between geographic distance and genetic distance based on the Bayesian assignment test was significant across relatively intact riparian habitats, with steeper slopes of regression for more densely grouped subpopulations, suggesting restricted gene flow. However, the correlation became less apparent with increasing spacing of the habitat patches. These contradictory results are attributed to the increased chance of long-distance dispersal of sexual propagules among more isolated habitat patches. The observed accumulation of genetic diversity with increasing distance downstream along a few, but not all, of the rivers and the results of assignment tests suggested a downstream directionality of gene flow. The results of this study illustrate the patterns of genetic diversity and contemporary dispersal of S. hukaoana, and provide important insights into understanding the gene dispersal of riparian trees and into the conservation of genetic resources for this species.
- Subjects
JAPAN; PLANT genetics; SALICACEAE; TREE propagation; MICROSATELLITE repeats; FRAGMENTED landscapes; GERMPLASM conservation; BAYESIAN analysis
- Publication
Conservation Genetics, 2011, Vol 12, Issue 1, p79
- ISSN
1566-0621
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1007/s10592-009-9992-z