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TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
Volume 35, Issue 6, Pages 1993-2007Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-021-02167-y
Keywords
Genetic differentiation; Phylogeography; Organellar DNA; Nuclear DNA; Introgression; Juglans
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [32,070,372, 41,471,038, 31,200,500]
- Shaanxi Academy of Science Research Funding Project [2019 K-06]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province of China [2019JM-008]
- Opening Foundation of the Ke y Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China (Northwest University), the Ministry of Education [ZSK2018009]
- Program for Excellent Young Academic Backbones - Northwest University
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The study found that even when sympatric, walnut species rarely introgress, indicating strong hybridization barriers between them. The two species occupy distinct ecological niches, and sympatric populations may be the result of recent postglacial population expansion.
Key message By comparing the phylogeography of Juglans regia and J. mandshurica, we found that two walnut species, even when sympatric, rarely introgress, suggesting that strong hybridization barriers exist between these species. The biogeographic investigation of temperate walnut (Juglans) trees is of great interest because of their ecological and economical importance. Our goal was to perform an in-depth investigation of the genetic and phylogeographic history of J. regia and J. mandshurica, two walnut species that are sympatric in parts of their ranges, including tests for gene flow and incomplete lineage sorting. We employed a 234 bp locus of mitochondrial DNA, a 1.8 Kbp locus of chloroplast DNA, 3 nuclear loci totaling 1740 bp in length, and 17 EST-SSRs. We sampled 559 individuals, 332 of J. regia and 227 of J. mandshurica, from 69 locations. We found that J. regia and J. mandshurica, even when sympatric, rarely introgress, suggesting that strong barriers to hybridization exist between these species. Niche overlap analyses for the two species found that they occupy distinct ecological niches and that the sympatric populations may be the result of recent postglacial population expansion.
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