VENDRAMIN, Giovanni G.; FADY, Bruno; GONZALEZ-MARTINEZ, Santiago C.; HU, Feng Sheng; SCOTTI, Ivan; SEBASTIANI, Federico; SOTO, Alvaro; PETIT, Remy

doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00294.x

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VENDRAMIN, Giovanni G.
Istituto di Genetica vegetale

FADY, Bruno
Unité de Recherches Forestières Méditerranéennes [URFM]

GONZALEZ-MARTINEZ, Santiago C.
Departamento de Sistemas y Recursos forestales

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Evolution - International Journal of Organic Evolution. 2008, vol. 62, n° 3, p. 680-688

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Genetic variation is generally considered a prerequisite for adaptation to new environmental conditions. Thus the discovery of genetically depauperate but geographically widespread species is unexpected. We used 12 paternally inherited chloroplast microsatellites to estimate population genetic variation across the full range of an emblematic circum-Mediterranean conifer, stone pine (Pinus pinea L.). The same chloroplast DNA haplotype is fixed in nearly all of the 34 investigated populations. Such a low level of variation is consistent with a previous report of very low levels of diversity at nuclear loci in this species. Stone pine appears to have passed through a severe and prolonged demographic bottleneck, followed by subsequent natural- and human-mediated dispersal across the Mediterranean Basin. No other abundant and widespread plant species has as little genetic diversity as P. pinea at both chloroplast and nuclear markers. However, the species harbors a nonnegligible amount of variation at adaptive traits. Thus a causal relationship between genetic diversity, as measured by marker loci, and the evolutionary precariousness of a species, cannot be taken for granted< Réduire

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CHLOROPLAST MICROSATELLITES

CONSERVATION GENETICS

DIVERSITY DEPLETION

HUMAN IMPACT

GENETIC DIVERSITY

PINUS PINEA

PIN PARASOL

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Genetically depauperate but widespread: the case of an emblematic mediterranean pine

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