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Do farmers reduce genetic diversity when they domesticate tropical trees? A case study from Amazonia.
Molecular ecology - 1 Feb 2005
Hollingsworth P M, Dawson I K, Goodall-Copestake W P, Richardson J E, Weber J C, Sotelo Montes C, Pennington R T
Abstract excerpt
Agroforestry ecosystems may be an important resource for conservation and sustainable use of tropical trees, but little is known of the genetic diversity they contain. Inga edulis, a widespread indigenous fruit tree in South America, is used as a model to assess the maintenance of genetic diversity in five planted vs. five natural stands in the Peruvian Amazon. Analysis of five SSR (simple sequence repeat) loci...
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