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CONSERVATION GENETICS
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages 965-976Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-009-9939-4
Keywords
Atlantic rain forest; Lauraceae; Endangered species; Genetic diversity; Spatial autocorrelation
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- CAPES (Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior)
- CNPq (National Council of Technological and Scientific Development)
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In order to establish a strategy for conservation, the distribution of genetic diversity in four natural populations of Ocotea catharinensis in the Brazilian Atlantic rain forest was investigated using 18 allozyme loci. Estimates of the average number of alleles per loci (2.2), percentage of polymorphic loci (83.3%) and expected genetic diversity (0.427) in adult individuals were high; suggesting that all populations have genetic potential for conservation. The inbreeding within populations ((f) over cap = -0.011) and the total inbreeding ((F) over cap = 0.133) suggest population structure, since a high level of divergence among populations ((theta) over cap (P) = 0.143) was also detected. Significant values of spatial genetic structure were found inside the four populations. This study demonstrates that the realized gene flow among the remaining populations of O. catharinensis is not sufficient to stop population divergence due to genetic drift and local selection, which threatens the future viability of this species.
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