Variation at a chloroplast minisatellite locus reveals the signature of habitat fragmentation and genetic bottlenecks in the rare orchid Anacamptis palustris (Orchidaceae)

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1681-1687

  Cozzolino, Salvatore ^a   Noce, Maria E ^b   Musacchio, Aldo ^b   Widmer, Alex ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anacamptis (Orchis) palustris; Bottleneck; Chloroplast minisatellite locus; Conservation genetics; Genetic diversity; Haplotype variation; Mediterranean region; Orchidaceae

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; RARE SPECIES;

ANACAMPTIS; ANACAMPTIS PALUSTRIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; ORCHIDACEAE; ORCHIS; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0346462990     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.90.12.1681     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. ALLENDORF, F. W. 1986. Genetic drift and the loss of alleles versus heterozygosity. Zoological Biology 5: 181-190.
2. ARDITTI, J., AND A. K. A. GHANI. 2000. Tansley review No. 110 - numerical and physical properties of orchid seeds and their biological implications. New Phytologist 145: 367-421.
3. ARDUINO, P., R. CIANCHI, W. ROSSI, B. CORRIAS, AND L. BULLINI. 1995. Genetic variation in Orchis papilionacea (Orchidaceae) from the Central Mediteranean region: taxonomic inferences at the intraspecific level. Plant Systematics and Evolution 194: 9-23.
4. ARDUINO, P., F. VERRA, R. CIANCHI, W. ROSSI, B. CORRIAS, AND L. BULLINI. 1996. Genetic variation and natural hybridization between Orchis laxiflora and Orchis palustris (Orchidaceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution 202: 87-109.
5. BELL, M., AND M. J. C. WALKER. 1992. Late Quaternary environmental change. Longman, Harlow, UK.
6. BIRKY, C. W., P. FUERST, AND T. MARUYAMA. 1989. Organelle gene diversity under migration, mutation, and drift: equilibrium expectations, approach to equilibrium, effects of heteroplasmic cells, and comparison to nuclear genes. Genetics 121: 613-627.
7. BRZOSKO, E., A. WROBLEWSKA, AND M. RATKIEWICZ. 2002. Spatial genetic structure and clonal diversity of island populations of ladys slipper (Cypripedium calceolus) from the Biebrza National Park (northeast Poland). Molecular Ecology 11: 2499-2509.
8. CAFASSO, D., G. PELLEGRINO, A. MUSACCHIO, A. WIDMER, AND S. COZZOLINO. 2001. Characterization of a minisatellite repeat locus in the chloroplast genome of Orchis palustris (Orchidaceae). Current Genetics 39: 394-398.
9. CHAKRABORTY, R., P. A. FUERST, AND M. NEI. 1980. Statistical studies on protein polymorphism in natural populations. III. Distribution of allele frequencies and the number of alleles per locus. Genetics 94: 1039-1063.
10. CONTI, F., A. MANZI, AND F. PEDROTTI. 1992. Libro rosso delle piante d'Italia. Associazione italiana per il WWF e la Società Botanica Italiana, Roma, Italy.
11. CORNUET, J. M., AND G. LUIKART. 1996. Description and power analysis of two tests for detecting recent population bottlenecks from allele frequency data. Genetics 144: 2001-2014.
12. CORRIVEAU, J. L., AND A. W. COLEMAN. 1988. Rapid screening method to detect potential biparental inheritance of plastid DNA and results for over 200 angiosperm species. American Journal of Botany 75: 1443-1458.
13. COZZOLINO, S., D. CAFASSO, G. PELLEGRINO, A. MUSACCHIO, AND A. WIDMER. 2003a. Molecular evolution of a chloroplast tandem repeat locus in an orchid lineage. Journal of Molecular Evolution 57: 1-9.
14. COZZOLINO, S., D. CAFASSO, G. PELLEGRINO, A. MUSACCHIO, AND A. WIDMER. 2003b. Fine-scale phylogeographical analysis of Mediterranean Anacamptis palustris (Orchidaceae) populations based on chloroplast minisatellite and microsatellite variation. Molecular Ecology 12: 2783-2792.
15. DEMESURE, B., B. COMPS, AND R. J. PETIT. 1996. Chloroplast DNA phylogeography of the common beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in Europe. Evolution 50: 2515-2520.
16. ECHT, C. S., L. L. DE VERNO, M. ANZIDEI, AND G. G. VENDRAMIN. 1998. Chloroplast microsatellites reveal population genetic diversity in red pine, Pinus resinosa Ait. Molecular Ecology 1: 307-316.
17. ELLEGREN, H. 2000. Heterogeneous mutation processes in human microsatellite DNA sequences. Nature Genetics 24: 400-402.
18. FISCHER, M., R. HUSI, D. PRATI, M. PEINTINGER, M. VAN KLEUNEN, AND B. SCHMID. 2000. RAPD variation among and within small and large populations of the rare clonal plant Ranunculus reptans (Ranunculaceae). American Journal of Botany 87: 1128-1137.
19. GRÜNANGER, P. 2000. Orchidacee d'Italia. Quaderni di Botanica Applicata 11: 3-80.
20. GUSTAFSSON, S. 2000. Patterns of genetic variation in Gymnadenia conopsea, the fragrant orchid. Molecular Ecology 9: 1863-1872.
21. HEWITT, G. M. 1996. Some genetic consequences of ice ages and their role in divergence and speciation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 58: 247-276.
22. LUIKART, G., W. B. SHERWIN, B. M. STEELE, AND F. W. ALLENDORF. 1998. Usefulness of molecular markers for detecting population bottlenecks via monitoring genetic change. Molecular Ecology 7: 963-974.
23. MARUYAMA, T., AND P. A. FUERST. 1985. Population bottlenecks and non-equilibrium models in population genetics. II. Number of alleles in a small population that was formed by a recent bottleneck. Genetics 111: 675-689.
24. MITTON, J. B. 1993. Molecular approaches to population biology. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 25: 45-69.
25. MORGANTE, M., N. FELICE, AND G. G. VENDRAMIN. 1998. Analysis of hypervariable chloroplast microsatellites in Pinus halepensis reveals a dramatic bottleneck. In A. Karp, P. G. Isaac, and D. S. Ingram [eds.], Molecular tools for screening biodiversity: plants and animals, 407-412. Chapman and Hall, London, UK.
26. NEI, M. 1975. Molecular population genetics and evolution. North-Holland, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
27. NEI, M. 1987. Molecular evolutionary genetics. Columbia University Press, New York, New York, USA.
28. NEI, M., R. CHAKRABORTY, AND P. A. FUERST. 1976. Infinite allele model with varying mutation rate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 73: 4164-4168.
29. NEI, M., T. MARUYAMA. AND R. CHAKRABORTY. 1975. The bottleneck effect and genetic variability in populations. Evolution 29: 1-10.
30. PELLEGRINO, G., D. CAFASSO, A. WIDMER, M. SOLIVA, AND A. MUSACCHIO. 2001. Isolation of microsatellite loci from the orchid Serapias vomeracea (Orchidaceae) and cross-priming to the other Serapias species. Molecular Ecology Notes 1: 279-280.
31. PETIT, R. J., A. EL MOUSADIK, AND O. PONS. 1998. Identifying populations for conservation on the basis of genetic markers. Conservation Biology 12: 844-855.
32. SCHAAL, B. A., D. A. HAYWORTH, K. M. OLSEN, J. T. RAUSCHER, AND W. A. SMITH. 1998. Phylogeographic studies in plants: problems and prospects. Molecular Ecology 7: 465-474.
33. SHRIVER, M. D., L. JIN, R. CHAKRABORTY, AND E. BOERWINKLE. 1993. VNTR allele frequency distribution under the stepwise mutation model: a computer simulation approach. Genetics 134: 983-993.
34. SOLIVA, M., B. GAUTSCHI, C. SALZMANN, I. TENZER, AND A. WIDMER. 2000. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in the orchid Ophrys araneola (Orchidaceae) and a test of cross-species amplification. Molecular Ecology 9: 2178-2179.
35. SOLIVA, M., AND A. WIDMER. 1999. Genetic and floral divergence among sympatric populations of Gymnadenia conopsea s. 1. (Orchidaceae) with different flowering phenology. International Journal of Plant Science 160: 897-905.
36. SQUIRRELL, J., P. M. HOLLINGSWORTH, R. M. BATEMAN, M. C. TEBBITT, AND M. L. HOLLINGSWORTH. 2002. Taxonomic complexity and breeding system transitions: conservation genetics of the Epipactis leptochila complex (Orchidaceae). Molecular Ecology 11: 1957-1964.
37. SUN, M., AND K. C. WONG. 2001. Genetic structure of three orchid species with contrasting breeding systems using RAPD and allozyme markers. American Journal of Botany 88: 2180-2188.
38. WALDICK, R. C., S. KRAUS, M. BROWN, AND B. N. WHITE. 2002. Evaluating the effects of historic bottleneck events: an assessment of microsatellite variability in the endangered North Atlantic right whale. Molecular Ecology 11: 2241-2249.
39. WATTERSON, G. A. 1984. Allele frequencies after a bottleneck. Theoretical Population Biology 26: 387-407.
40. WIDMER, A., AND C. LEXER. 2001. Glacial refugia: sanctuaries of allelic richness, but not for gene diversity. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16: 267-269.
41. WILLIS, K. J. 1996. Where did all the flowers go? The fate of temperate European flora during glacial periods. Endeavour 20: 110-114.
42. WOLFE, K. H., W. H. LI, AND P. M. SHARP. 1987. Rates of nucleotide substitution vary greatly among plant mitochondrial, chloroplast and nuclear DNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 84: 9054-9058.