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ArticleBMC ecology and evolution2021

Landscape and climatic features drive genetic differentiation processes in a South American coastal plant.

Gustavo A Silva-Arias, Lina Caballero-Villalobos, Giovanna C Giudicelli, Loreta B Freitas

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Article in BMC ecology and evolution, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Gustavo A Silva-AriasProfessorship for Population Genetics, Department of Life Science Systems, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany. gustavo.silva@tum.de.ORCID 0000-0002-7114-9916
Lina Caballero-VillalobosLaboratory of Molecular Evolution, Department of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-6686-8732
Giovanna C GiudicelliLaboratory of Molecular Evolution, Department of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Loreta B FreitasLaboratory of Molecular Evolution, Department of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. loreta.freitas@ufrgs.br.
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul · BR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundHistorical and ecological processes shape patterns of genetic diversity in plant species. Colonization to new environments and geographical landscape features determine, amongst other factors, genetic diversity within- and differentiation between-populations. We analyse the genetic diversity and population structure of Calibrachoa heterophylla to infer the influence of abiotic landscape features on the level of gene flow in this coastal species of the South Atlantic Coastal Plain.

resultsThe C. heterophylla populations located on early-deposited coastal plain regions show higher genetic diversity than those closer to the sea. The genetic differentiation follows a pattern of isolation-by-distance. Landscape features, such as water bodies and wind corridors, and geographical distances equally explain the observed genetic differentiation, whereas the precipitation seasonality exhibits a strong signal for isolation-by-environment in marginal populations. The estimated levels of gene flow suggest that marginal populations had restricted immigration rates enhancing differentiation.

conclusionsTopographical features related to coastal plain deposition history influence population differentiation in C. heterophylla. Gene flow is mainly restricted to nearby populations and facilitated by wind fields, albeit without any apparent influence of large water bodies. Furthermore, differential rainfall regimes in marginal populations seem to promote genetic differentiation.

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Gene FlowGenetic VariationGeographySouth AmericaCalibrachoa heterophyllaColonizationGene flowGenetic structureLandscape geneticsSolanaceaeSouth Atlantic Coastal Plain

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