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Consistency of population genetics parameters estimated from isozyme and RAPDs dataset in species of genus Prosopis (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae)

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Genetic variability, population structure and differentiation among 17 populations of 5 species and 2 natural interspecific hybrids of section Algarobia of genus Prosopis were analyzed from data of 23 isozyme and 28 RAPD loci. Both markers indicated that the studied populations are highly variable. P. alba populations in average showed lower values of genetic variability estimates from isozyme data, but this trend was not observed for RAPD markers. The hierarchical analyses of the distribution of genetic variability showed that the highest proportion of variation occurred within populations, the differentiation among species was intermediate and the lowest component was observed among populations within species. The consistency between results from both dataset implies that they are not biased and reflect the actual genetic structure of the populations analyzed. The matrices of Euclidean distances obtained from the two sets of markers were highly correlated according to Mantel test. In both cases the corresponding phenogram and MDS plot tended to cluster conspecific populations while hybrid populations were not intermediate between putative parents. Some disagreements between isozyme and RAPD phenograms were observed mainly in the affinities of hybrid populations. Such inconsistencies might result from reticular rather than dichotomic evolutionary relationships. The phenetic associations retrieved gave no support to the division of the section Algarobia into series.

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The authors wish to thank Ing. R.A. Palacios (Univ. Buenos Aires, Argentina), who kindly determined the material here studied. This study was financed by Universidad de Buenos Aires (Grant X321 to B.O.S.), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) (Grant PIP No. 5122 to J.C.V.).

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    Laura Inés Ferreyra, Cecilia Bessega, Juan C. Vilardi & Beatriz O. Saidman

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Ferreyra, L.I., Bessega, C., Vilardi, J.C. et al. Consistency of population genetics parameters estimated from isozyme and RAPDs dataset in species of genus Prosopis (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae). Genetica 131, 217–230 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10709-006-9132-3

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