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Genetic structure of an endemic Japanese conifer, Sciadopitys verticillata (Sciadopityaceae), by using microsatellite markers.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Kawase Daiju, Tsumura Yoshihiko, Tomaru Nobuhiro, Seo Akihiro, Yumoto Takakazu
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the genetic structure of Sciadopitys verticillata, an endemic conifer in Japan, using 11 microsatellite markers. Average expected heterozygosity varied from 0.282 to 0.450, with between 2 and 17 alleles per locus, and allelic richness varied from 2.14 to 2.94 within a population. Wilcoxon signed-rank tests suggested that there was a recent bottleneck in the southwestern populations in the Kinki...
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