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The genetic variability in 29 populations of Abies sibirica, three of A. nephrolepis, and seven of A. sachalinensis was studied using SSR markers of chloroplast DNA. Among ten primer pairs examined, pairs Pt71936 and Pt30204 gave stable amplification and polymorphic products (with nine and fourteen alleles, respectively). Totally, 70 haplotypes were found, 43 in A. sibirica, 49 in A. sachalinensis, and 31 in A. nephrolepis. The highest values of genetic diversity parameters were observed in A. sachalinensis, and the lowest in A. sibirica. The Siberian fir differs from Far East species by the uneven multimodal frequency distributions of allele length in both cpSSR loci, which is explained by the presence of few separated from each other dominating haplotypes. This fact indicates that A. sibirica and the Far East species have different demographic histories. In A. sibirica, the proportion of diversity between populations in the total genetic diversity, calculated taking into account the differences between haplotypes (R ST) was 8.34 and 4.42% without accounting for haplotypes differences (R ST > G ST, P = 0.01). The pairwise G ST correlate significantly with geographic distances between the populations A. sibirica and with genetic distances D calculated from allozyme data. No such correlations were found with the R ST parameter. The results of cpSSR variability analysis strongly support the conclusions inferred from allozyme data: several geographic groups of comparatively genetically close populations are identified, which may be explained by the history of colonization of the present-day Siberian fir range.
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Original Russian Text © S.A. Semerikova, V.L. Semerikov, 2007, published in Genetika, 2007, Vol. 43, No. 12, pp. 1637–1646.
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Semerikova, S.A., Semerikov, V.L. The diversity of chloroplast microsatellite loci in Siberian fir (Abies sibirica Ledeb.) and two Far East fir species A. nephrolepis (Trautv.) Maxim. and A. sachalinensis Fr. Schmidt. Russ J Genet 43, 1373–1381 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S102279540712006X
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