expressed sequence tags simple sequence repeats (est-ssrs) are important sources for investigation ofgenetic diversity and molecular marker development. similar to genomic ssrs, the est-ssrs are usefulmarkers for many applications in genetics and plant breeding such as genetic diversity analysis, molecularmapping and cross-transferability across related species and genera. in spite of low polym...

versity through genetic drift, founder effects, and genetic bottlenecks. Such events can reduce a population’s evolutionary potential and increase the risk of extinction. In this chapter, we use plant immigrants as a model system to examine the circumstances in which genetic bottlenecks do (and do not) occur and where in the hierarchical partitioning of genetic diversity such bottlenecks take p...

Fifteen yarrow populations from different species Achillea millefolium L., A. biebersteinii L. and A. nobilis, from different geographical areas of Iran were studied using 24 morphological traits and peroxidase profiles. Comparison of mean values of different phenotypic traits show A. millefolium and A. biebersteinii L. had higher plant height and crown diameter; however, A. nobilis had higher ...

Genetic diversity is the fundamental source of biodiversity – the total number of genetic characters contributing to variation within species. In other words it is the measure that quantifies the variation found within a population of a given species. Genetic diversity among individuals reflects the presence of different alleles in the gene pool, and hence different genotypes within populations...

Article history: Received 17 July 2015 Received in revised form 17 March 2016 Accepted 24 March 2016 Available online xxxx Sacred forest groves are often located in some of the world's hottest hotspots of biodiversity, and consequently have high potential conservation value. Recent efforts to quantify their value have focused nearly exclusively on a single component of diversity, species divers...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Polyploidy is widely recognized as an important process in the evolution of plants, but less attention has been paid to the study of intraspecific polyploidy, including its prevalence, formation, taxonomic implications, and effect on genetic diversity, structure, and gene flow within and among individuals and populations. Here we studied intraspecific ploidy level variation...

inter simple sequence repeat (issr) analysis was performed to evaluate genetic diversity and genetic structure of six capoeta trutta populations from two main watersheds in the kurdistan province. fish samples were caught from the choman, shooei, garmab rivers in the choman watershed and from the gheshlagh, gavarood, sirvan rivers in the sirvan watershed. from six used dinucleotide primers, thr...