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. 1994 Mar;136(3):1187–1194. doi: 10.1093/genetics/136.3.1187

Paternally Inherited Chloroplast Polymorphism in Pinus: Estimation of Diversity and Population Subdivision, and Tests of Disequilibrium with a Maternally Inherited Mitochondrial Polymorphism

J Dong 1, D B Wagner 1
PMCID: PMC1205873  PMID: 8005423

Abstract

We have surveyed a chloroplast DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism in 745 individuals, distributed rangewide in eight allopatric natural populations of jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) and eight allopatric natural populations of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl.). The polymorphic region of the chloroplast genome is located near duplicated psbA genes. Fourteen length variants were found in the survey, and these variants distinguished the two species qualitatively. Variant diversities were high in both species (h(es) = 0.43 in jack pine; h(es) = 0.44 in lodgepole pine). Population subdivision was weak within and among lodgepole pine subspecies and in jack pine (i.e., θvalues were less than 0.05). This weak subdivision is compatible with theoretical predictions for paternally inherited markers in wind-pollinated outcrossers, as well as for polymorphisms with high length mutation rates. If these populations are at a drift-migration equilibrium, the chloroplast DNA restriction fragment data and previous mitochondrial frequency data from the same individuals are consistent with gene flow that is differential through seeds and pollen. The new data have permitted the first empirical tests of disequilibrium between maternally and paternally inherited factors. As expected, these tests failed to detect convincing evidence of non-random association between chloroplast and mitochondrial variants.

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