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Genetic differentiation of Pinus mugo Turra and P. sylvestris L. populations in the Ukrainian Carpathians and the Swiss Alps

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The allozyme analysis of six local populations of Pinus mugo Turra and six populations of P. sylvestris L. in the Ukrainian Carpathians, Swiss Alps, and Schwarzwald has shown a higher polymorphism and greater interpopulation differentiation of the Carpathian group of P. mugo populations compared to the Alpine group (Nei’s genetic distance DN 78 at the level of geographic population group is −0.023). A genetic differentiation of DN 78 = 0.049 between these populations, which are isolated by a distance of more than 1000 km, has been found. This confirms the existence of the subspecies P. mugo ssp. mugo and P. mugo ssp. uncinata in the Carpathians and Alps, respectively. The hypothesis is put forward that the former subspecies has been formed in the Balkans and the latter, in the Pyreneans. It has been demonstrated that regional populations and geographic groups of P. sylvestris are less differentiated than those of P. mugo.

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  1. Botanical Garden, Ural Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vos’mogo Marta 202, Yekaterinburg, 620144, Russia

    S. N. Sannikov, I. V. Petrova & E. V. Egorov

  2. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Zürcherstrasse 111, CH-8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

    F. Schweingruber

  3. Ukrainian Research Institute of Alpine Forestry, ul. Grushevskogo 31, Ivano-Frankovsk, 76000, Ukraine

    T. V. Parpan

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Original Russian Text © S.N. Sannikov, I.V. Petrova, F. Schweingruber, E.V. Egorov, T.V. Parpan, 2011, published in Ekologiya, 2011, No. 4, pp. 251–258.

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Sannikov, S.N., Petrova, I.V., Schweingruber, F. et al. Genetic differentiation of Pinus mugo Turra and P. sylvestris L. populations in the Ukrainian Carpathians and the Swiss Alps. Russ J Ecol 42, 270–276 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413611040151

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