Consequences of habitat fragmentation on genetic diversity and structure of Salix alba L. populations in two major river systems of Turkey
     
Yazarlar (3)
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Funda ÖZDEMİR DEĞİRMENCİ Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Pelin Acar Middle East Technical University (Metu), Türkiye
Zeki Kaya Middle East Technical University (Metu), Türkiye
Makale Türü Açık Erişim Özgün Makale (SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale)
Dergi Adı Tree Genetics and Genomes (Q1)
Dergi ISSN 1614-2942 Wos Dergi Scopus Dergi
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI-Expanded
Makale Dili İngilizce Basım Tarihi 06-2019
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa 15 / 4 / 59–0 DOI 10.1007/s11295-019-1365-2
Makale Linki https://doi.org/10.1007/s11295-019-1365-2
Özet
Salix alba L. (white willow) is an indicator species of a healthy riparian ecosystem with great renewable energy potential in Turkey though habitats of the species in many river ecosystems are highly degraded or fragmented. Impacts of this degradation of river ecosystems on the magnitude and pattern of genetic diversity are not known. This study was aimed at assessing the genetic structure of S. alba populations in two highly degraded and fragmented river systems (the Göksu and Kızılırmak rivers) in Turkey with the use of 20 nuclear simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci. Fifteen of them were used for the first time in this study. Out of the 20 SSR loci, 10 loci significantly deviated from the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium frequencies and five of them contributed greatly to the differentiation of populations. Generally, high levels of genetic diversity were found in populations of both Göksu and Kızılırmak river systems and …
Anahtar Kelimeler
Genetic diversity | Habitat fragmentation | Population structure | Salix alba | Simple sequence repeat (SSR)