Population genomics of the widespread African savannah trees Afzelia africana and Afzelia quanzensis reveals no significant past fragmentation of their distribution ranges

• Published in: American journal of botany Vol. 107; no. 3; pp. 498 - 509
• Main Authors: Donkpegan, Armel S. L., Piñeiro, Rosalía, Heuertz, Myriam, Duminil, Jérôme, Daïnou, Kasso, Doucet, Jean‐Louis, Hardy, Olivier J.
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: United States Botanical Society of America, Inc 01.03.2020; Botanical Society of America
• Subjects: Afzelia; Afzelia africana; Afzelia quanzensis; Bayes Theorem; Bayesian analysis; Biologie végétale (sciences végétales, sylviculture, mycologie...); Climate change; Clustering; Demographic expansion; Environmental Sciences; Evolutionary genetics; Fabaceae; Fabaceae - Detarioideae; Fragmentation; Genetic diversity; Genetic Variation; Genetics & genetic processes; Genetics, Population; Genotypes; Genotyping; Geographical distribution; Génétique & processus génétiques; Humans; Indicator species; Isolation by distance; Kinship; Life sciences; Markers; Metagenomics; Microsatellite Repeats; Microsatellites; Nucleotides; Oscillations; Phylogeography; Phytobiology (plant sciences, forestry, mycology...); Pleistocene; Quaternary; Rainforests; Resolution; Savannah trees; Savannahs; Sciences du vivant; Single-nucleotide polymorphism; SNPs; Spatial genetic structure; Species; Species diversity; SSRs; Trees; Fabaceae - Detarioideae; savannah trees; demographic expansion; isolation by distance; spatial genetic structure; SSRs; kinship; SNPs; Afzelia

Premise Few studies have addressed the evolutionary history of tree species from African savannahs. Afzelia contains economically important timber species, including two species widely distributed in African savannahs: A. africana in the Sudanian region and A. quanzensis in the Zambezian region. We...