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Genetic diversity and differentiation of populations of Anthyllis vulneraria along elevational and latitudinal gradients

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ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 12, 期 8, 页码 -

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9167

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abundant centre model; climate change; founder effect; isolation by distance; Pleistocene glaciation; population size effect

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  1. Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg [7871584]
  2. Musee national d'histoire naturelle

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Using microsatellite markers, the study investigated the genetic diversity and structure of Anthyllis vulneraria populations along elevational and latitudinal gradients. The results showed a strong decline in genetic diversity and increased differentiation with latitude, supporting the predictions of the abundant centre model. However, there was no correlation between genetic diversity and elevation. This suggests that latitude has a greater impact on genetic diversity than elevation.
The abundant centre model (ACM) predicts that the suitability of environmental conditions for a species decreases from the centre of its distribution toward its range periphery and, consequently, its populations will become scarcer, smaller and more isolated, resulting in lower genetic diversity and increased differentiation. However, little is known about whether genetic diversity shows similar patterns along elevational and latitudinal gradients with similar changes in important environmental conditions. Using microsatellite markers, we studied the genetic diversity and structure of 20 populations each of Anthyllis vulneraria along elevational gradients in the Alps from the valleys to the elevational limit (2500 m) and along a latitudinal gradient (2500 km) from Central Europe to the range margin in northern Scandinavia. Both types of gradients corresponded to an 11.5 degrees C difference in mean annual temperature. Genetic diversity strongly declined and differentiation increased with latitude in line with the predictions of the ACM. However, as population size did not decline with latitude and genetic diversity was not related to population size in A. vulneraria, this pattern is not likely to be due to less favorable conditions in the North, but due to serial founder effects during the post-glacial recolonization process. Genetic diversity was not related to elevation, but we found significant isolation by distance along both gradients, although the elevational gradient was shorter by orders of magnitude. Subarctic populations differed genetically from alpine populations indicating that the northern populations did not originate from high elevational Alpine ones. Our results support the notion that postglacial latitudinal colonization over large distances resulted in a larger loss of genetic diversity than elevational range shifts. The lack of genetic diversity in subarctic populations may threaten their long-term persistence in the face of climate change, whereas alpine populations could benefit from gene flow from low-elevation populations.

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