Genetic diversity in the common terrestrial orchid Oreorchis patens and its rare congener Oreorchis coreana: inference of species evolutionary history and implications for conservation.

Abstract excerpt

We hypothesized that the main Korean mountain ranges provided many refugia for boreal plant species, where they likely found relatively stable habitats and maintained large population sizes. Under this scenario, high levels of genetic variation and low degree of differentiation among populations within these species were anticipated. To test this hypothesis, we examined levels of allozyme diversity (17 loci) in...

Topics

• Cloning, Molecular
• Conservation of Natural Resources
• Evolution, Molecular
• Gene Frequency
• Genetic Variation
• Inbreeding
• Orchidaceae
• Phylogeography
• Republic of Korea
• Seasons