par Heuertz, Myriam 
;Vekemans, Xavier ;Hausman, JF;Palada, M;Hardy, Olivier J.
Référence Molecular ecology, 12, page (2483-2495)
Publication Publié, 2003
;Vekemans, Xavier ;Hausman, JF;Palada, M;Hardy, Olivier J. Référence Molecular ecology, 12, page (2483-2495)
Publication Publié, 2003
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | Spatial genetic structure was analysed with five highly polymorphic microsatellite loci in a Romanian population of common ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.), a wind-pollinated and wind-dispersed tree species occurring in mixed deciduous forests over almost all of Europe. Contributions of seed and pollen dispersal to total gene flow were investigated by analysing the pattern of decrease in kinship coefficients among pairs of individuals with geographical distance and comparing it with simulation results. Plots of kinship against the logarithm of distance were decomposed into a slope and a shape component. Simulations showed that the slope is informative about the global level of gene flow, in agreement with theoretical expectations, whereas the shape component was correlated with the relative importance of seed vs. pollen dispersal. Hence, our results indicate that insights into the relative contributions of seed and pollen dispersal to overall gene flow can be gained from details of the pattern of spatial genetic structure at biparentally inherited loci. In common ash, the slope provided an estimate of total gene dispersal in terms of Wright's neighbourhood size of Nb |
