Abstract
The hornbeam, a shade tolerant tree species,has recolonised Europe very late during theHolocene. In order to investigate whether thispostglacial recolonisation had led to a loss ofchloroplast (cp) DNA diversity, as alreadydescribed for other tree species, andespecially the beech, another late-successionalspecies, we have studied the phylogeography ofthe hornbeam using cpDNA. Three types of cpDNAmarkers were used (PCR-RFLP, microsatellites,sequences) to analyse 36 European populationsof C. betulus and five populations ofC. orientalis. Six haplotypes specific toC. betulus were detected, one of themcompletely fixed in all populations fromnorthern and western Europe, whereas the otherswere restricted to the eastern Europeancountries and to southern Italy. A remarkablyhigh value of differentiation among populationswas found (G ST = 0.972). Twodifferent haplotypes specific to C.orientalis were detected, suggesting noongoing gene flow between these two species,and similar refugia in Italy and in the Balkansfor both Carpinus species. Pollen dataare congruent with genetic data: during thelast ice age, the hornbeam was restricted tothe Balkans and to southern Italy andrecolonised Europe northwards and westwards.Conservation priorities should target severalpopulations from these regions that arehotspots of diversity and that represent asmall part of the range of the species.
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Grivet, D., Petit, R.J. Chloroplast DNA phylogeography of the hornbeam in Europe: Evidence for a bottleneck at the outset of postglacial colonization. Conservation Genetics 4, 47–56 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021804009832
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