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Genetic variation of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) along an altitudinal transect at mount Vogelsberg in Hesse, Germany

Alwin JanssenSusanne KonigGunter M. RotheHans WeisgerberThomas Sander

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HeterozygoteGenotypePopulationPopulation geneticsTreesAltitudeGene FrequencyFagus sylvaticaGermanyGenetic variationBotanyGeneticsSelection GeneticeducationTransectBeechAllelesEcosystemEcology Evolution Behavior and Systematicseducation.field_of_studybiologyAltitudeGenetic Variationbiology.organism_classificationGenotype frequencyAlcohol OxidoreductasesGenetics Population

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Allelic and genotypic variation at 13 different enzyme loci of autochthonous European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) was investigated in six 110-160-year-old stands growing at elevations between 150 and 660 m above sea level on the western slope of mount Vogelsberg in central Germany. The highest elevated population showed the highest number of effective alleles (Ne), the highest total heterozygosity (He) and the highest population differentiation deltaT. Also, the genotype SKD-A2A3 of shikimate dehydrogenase was significantly more frequent at the two highest elevated stands (P = 11%) than at the three lowest elevated stands (P = 1%). Further differences in genotype frequencies between 11 of 15 stand pairs were elevation independent.

https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-294x.2000.01014.x