Article
Effects of introgression on the genetic population structure of two ecologically and economically important conifer species: lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) and jack pine (Pinus banksiana).
Genome - 1 Oct 2013
Cullingham Catherine I, Cooke Janice E K, Coltman David W
Abstract excerpt
Forest trees exhibit a remarkable range of adaptations to their environment, but as a result of frequent and long-distance gene flow, populations are often only weakly differentiated. Lodgepole and jack pine hybridize in western Canada, which adds the opportunity for introgression through hybridization to contribute to population structure and (or) adaptive variation. Access to large sample size, high density SNP...
Topics
- Animals
- Bayes Theorem
- Canada
- Coleoptera
- DNA, Plant
- Ecosystem
- Genetic Loci
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Plant
- Genotype
- Hybridization, Genetic
- Pinus
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Trees