期刊
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
卷 192, 期 -, 页码 353-360出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.10.013
关键词
Banksia brownii; Conservation units; Disease; Genetic diversity loss; Population extinction
资金
- Department of Parks and Wildlife
Rapid range-wide extinction of whole populations due to introduced disease would be expected to lead to significant loss of genetic diversity, with impacts being greater for a species that is geographically restricted and with disjunct populations. We investigated the genetic consequences of extirpation in the rare endemic woody shrub, Banksia brownii, following the introduction of the pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi. B. brownii shows a pattern of disease driven population extinction typical of significant numbers of threatened plant species within southwestern Australia. Based on microsatellite genotyping of material from extinct (ex situ seed collections) and extant populations we estimated that 38.2% (gene diversity) and 36.7% (allelic richness) of total genetic diversity, based on contributions of within population variation and differentiation, have been lost from Banksia brownii due to P. cinnamomi. Furthermore, a loss of genetic diversity was reflected in the loss of 16 out of 55 and 6 out of 33 private alleles respectively from two geographically disjunct genetically distinct population groups. We found significant genetic structure within B. brownii with three geographically disjunct population assemblages that should be regarded as separate units for conservation. These findings have been important in developing reintroductions to disease free sites for each conservation unit. Crown Copyright (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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