Title |
Population genetics of the understory fishtail palm Chamaedorea ernesti-augusti in Belize: high genetic connectivity with local differentiation
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Published in |
BMC Genomic Data, October 2009
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2156-10-65 |
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Authors |
Angélica Cibrián-Jaramillo, Christine D Bacon, Nancy C Garwood, Richard M Bateman, Meredith M Thomas, Steve Russell, C Donovan Bailey, William J Hahn, Samuel GM Bridgewater, Rob DeSalle |
Abstract |
Developing a greater understanding of population genetic structure in lowland tropical plant species is highly relevant to our knowledge of increasingly fragmented forests and to the conservation of threatened species. Specific studies are particularly needed for taxa whose population dynamics are further impacted by human harvesting practices. One such case is the fishtail or xaté palm (Chamaedorea ernesti-augusti) of Central America, whose wild-collected leaves are becoming progressively more important to the global ornamental industry. We use microsatellite markers to describe the population genetics of this species in Belize and test the effects of climate change and deforestation on its recent and historical effective population size. |
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