Differentiation and Taxonomic Identification of Roburoid Oaks in the Caucasian and Crimean Regions Using Nuclear Microsatellite Markers
Journal: Russian Journal of Genetics
Year: 2024

The inter- and intra-specific structure of genetic variability was studied using 18 microsatellite loci (nSSRs) in closely related roburoid white oaks in the Crimean-Caucasian region. The seven most widespread Quercus taxa in the region were studied in 29 morphologically pure populations from different parts of the North Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Crimea and northeastern Europe. Most taxa were studied using nSSR markers for the first time. Among the 492 trees studied, Bayesian clustering method im