Université de Fribourg

Analysis of nuclear microsatellites reveals limited differentiation between Colchic and Hyrcanian populations of the wind-pollinated relict tree Zelkova carpinifolia (Ulmaceae)

Maharramova, Elmira H. ; Safarov, Hajiaga M. ; Kozlowski, Gregor ; Borsch, Thomas ; Muller, Ludo A.

In: American Journal of Botany, 2015, vol. 102, no. 1, p. 119–128

Premise of the study: The Caucasus represents one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots and includes the climatic refugia Hyrcan on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and Colchis on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, where different species survived during the Quaternary climatic oscillations. We evaluated the genetic diversity of the relict tree Zelkova carpinifolia shared between the two...