EVIDENCE FOR AN EXTREME BOTTLENECK IN A RARE MEXICAN PINYON: GENETIC DIVERSITY, DISEQUILIBRIUM, AND THE MATING SYSTEM IN PINUS MAXIMARTINEZII - PubMed (original) (raw)
EVIDENCE FOR AN EXTREME BOTTLENECK IN A RARE MEXICAN PINYON: GENETIC DIVERSITY, DISEQUILIBRIUM, AND THE MATING SYSTEM IN PINUS MAXIMARTINEZII
F Thomas Ledig et al. Evolution. 1999 Feb.
Abstract
Maxipiñon (Pinus maximartinezii Rzedowski), which is confined to a single population of approximately 2000 to 2500 mature trees, covers about 400 ha in southern Zacatecas, Mexico. Genetic diversity measured by expected heterozygosity was 0.122, which is moderate for pines. However, percentage polymorphic loci was low, 30.3%. The fixation index (F) of 0.081 indicated only slight heterozygote deficiency. Mating system analysis indicated a significant but low level of selling; the multilocus outcrossing rate, tm , was 0.816. The mean of single locus estimates, ts , was smaller (0.761), perhaps suggesting mating among relatives, although the difference between tm and ts was not statistically significant. The most striking features of maxipiñon's genetic structure were that no polymorphic locus had more than two alleles and most alleles at polymorphic loci were at intermediate frequencies. This is in contrast to other pines, which often have three to five or more alleles at some loci and in which the distribution of allele frequencies is U-shaped, most alleles being present at frequencies less than 10% or greater than 90%. A population with only two alleles per locus and at intermediate frequencies could occur if the population had been reduced to an extreme bottleneck and then expanded rapidly before random drift modified allele frequencies. A novel origin from a hybridization event would also explain the results. Significant gametic disequilibrium was detected at several pairs of loci in both maternal and paternal gametes. The presence of disequilibrium is in agreement with an origin from an extreme bottleneck, perhaps even a single seed. Furthermore, it demands that the event be relatively recent. The number of generations, as calculated from the observed mean disequilibrium, suggested that maxipiñon derived from an extreme bottleneck four to five generations ago, which is less than 1000 years in this species.
Keywords: Endangered species; isozymes; linkage disequilibrium; outcrossing; rarity.
© 1999 The Society for the Study of Evolution.
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