ESTRUTURA GENÉTICA POPULACIONAL E FLUXO GÊNICO EM Dipteryx alata VOGEL (FABACEAE) NO CERRADO / Populational genetic structure and gene flow in Dipteryx alata Vogel (Fabaceae) from Brazilian Cerrado

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2009

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The goal of this study was to evaluate the genetic structure and the spatial pattern of intra and interpopulational gene flow of Dipteryx alata Vogel, based on nuclear and chloroplastidial microsatellite markers. Primers were developed based on sequencing of random fragments from a shotgun genomic library for detection of microsatellite regions. 12 microsatellites regions were obtained from 688 sequences, which allowed the construction of pairs of primers. These regions are composed of motifs with two to six nucleotides, ranging from 136 to 380 base pairs. This shows that the random sequencing strategy from shotgun libraries is interesting because it allows the achievement of primers for repetitive regions with different motifs. Two of these loci (Da_E06 e Da_E12) were polymorphic with three alleles each. He estimation for these loci showed satisfactory values (0.2946 and 0.2879, respectively), considering the number of alleles. Also, we used a transferred primer from the species Phaseolus vulgaris (BM164) for D. alata. Moreover, other two chloroplastidials microsatellite primers were used for molecular analyses of georeferenced subpopulations, totalizing 775 plants distributed over the natural occurrence area of Cerrado. 210 of these plants were collected and georeferenced one by one along the margins of the Araguaia River in the states of Mato-Grosso (RAMT) and Goiás (RAGO) for spatial distribution of genetic variability in local scale analysis. The relationship between estimations of genetic diversity parameters with patterns of potential distribution of species was evaluated. This was used to test the hypothesis that the genetic variability of D. alata populations is distributed according to the central-periphery model. D. alata subpopulations showed considerable high levels of genetic variability that was significantly structured among subpopulations and well structured in space, both for nuclear and chloroplastidial data. The estimation of the apparent cross-fertilization rate (ta = 1.0575) indicates that the species is allogamous. Estimations of migration rates by pollen and by seeds were lower than one, indicating that seed dispersal contributes more effectively for total gene flow. Estimates of the genetic diversity parameters from the Araguaia River population showed similar values between both margins. The estimation of the apparent cross-fertilization rate (0.9434) indicated that the Araguaia River is not a physical barrier to effective gene flow. The effective size of the neighborhood, i.e., the mean number of individuals in an area where panmixia occurs was 85.64 and 22.99 for nuclear and chloroplastidial data, respectively, indicating that seed dispersal is more restricted. The correlogram generated with chloroplastidial data presented a cline pattern of variance more evident than with nuclear data, suggesting that the presence of spatial genetic structure is being more influenced by seed dispersal. We observed that the genetic parameters do not follow a classical central-periphery model, because peripheral population (according to geographical distribution of sampling locations) tended to demonstrate higher values for these estimations, mainly the South and Western subpopulations. The relationship found between the fixation index (f) with human impact indicated that the subpopulations evaluated can be affected by fragmentation process and land use, probably caused by the recent human colonization in Cerrado biome.

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primer development genetica microssatélite baru tree baru spatial genetic structure microsatellite cpdna 1 - leguminosas 2 - dipteryx alata vogel 3 - plantas do cerrado 4 - baru estrutura genética espacial desenvolvimento de iniciador cpdna

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