Genetic variation of <i>Abies cilicica</i> and other Mediterranean <i>Abies</i> species.

Abstract

<p>Pie charts are used to depict the gene diversity corrected for sample size <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0090086#pone.0090086-Nei1" target="_blank">[55]</a>, <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0090086#pone.0090086-Hartl1" target="_blank">[56]</a> and the rarefied allelic richness <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0090086#pone.0090086-Hurlbert1" target="_blank">[57]</a>, <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0090086#pone.0090086-ElMousadik1" target="_blank">[58]</a>, averaged over 10 nuclear microsatellite loci, for <i>A. cilicica</i> in Lebanon (CILI), <i>A. bornmuelleriana</i> in Turkey (BORN), <i>A. cephalonica</i> in Greece (CEPH), <i>A. alba</i> in the French Southern Alps (ALBA1), <i>A. alba</i> in the French Pyrenees (ALBA2), and <i>A. marocana</i> in Morocco (MARO). Diameter of pie charts is relative to the correspondent rarefied allelic richness of the species. Proportion of red or blue color within pie charts is relative to the correspondent gene diversity of the species. Blue and red colors are employed to separate the studied fir populations into a group with significant lower genetic variation (red pie charts), and a group with significant higher genetic variation (blue pie charts) based on 10000 permutations of populations among groups performed in fstat version 2.9.3.2 <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0090086#pone.0090086-Goudet1" target="_blank">[54]</a>.</p