Genetic Diversity in the Common Terrestrial Orchid Oreorchis patens and Its Rare Congener Oreorchis coreana: Inference of Species Evolutionary History and implications for Conservation
- Authors
- Chung, Mi Yoon; Lopez-Pujol, Jordi; Maki, Masayuki; Kim, Ki-Joong; Chung, Jae Min; Sun, Byung-Yun; Chung, Myong Gi
- Issue Date
- 9월-2012
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
- Keywords
- allozymes; founder effect; Korea; montane; population history
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF HEREDITY, v.103, no.5, pp.692 - 702
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF HEREDITY
- Volume
- 103
- Number
- 5
- Start Page
- 692
- End Page
- 702
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/107567
- DOI
- 10.1093/jhered/ess032
- ISSN
- 0022-1503
- Abstract
- We hypothesized that the main Korean mountain ranges provided many refugia for boreal plant species, where they likely found relatively stable habitats and maintained large population sizes. Under this scenario, high levels of genetic variation and low degree of differentiation among populations within these species were anticipated. To test this hypothesis, we examined levels of allozyme diversity (17 loci) in 12 populations of the common terrestrial montane orchid Oreorchis patens from the main ranges in Korea and 4 populations of its rare congener O. coreana, which is restricted to the Korean island of Jeju. As expected, O. patens harbored high levels of genetic variation within populations (%P = 62.8,A = 1.96, H-o = 0.211, and H-e = 0.237). Allele frequency differences among populations were low (F-ST = 0.075), and the species also displayed a significant correlation between pairwise genetic differentiation and geographical distance. All these results suggest that extant populations were founded by multiple genetically diverse individuals and that most of this initial diversity would have been maintained in the stable mountainous conditions during Quaternary climatic oscillations. In contrast, we were unable to detect any genetic diversity in O. coreana, suggesting that contemporary populations likely originated from a single ancestral source population that had lost all genetic variability. From a long-term conservation genetics perspective, extreme rarity and small population sizes, coupled with its apparent genetic uniformity, place O. coreana at a high risk of extinction. Thus, both in situ and ex situ conservation efforts should be of particular importance for this species.
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