Geo-referenced population-specific microsatellite data across American continents, the MacroPopGen Database.

ABSTRACT: Population genetic data from nuclear DNA has yet to be synthesized to allow broad scale comparisons of intraspecific diversity versus species diversity. The MacroPopGen database collates and geo-references vertebrate population genetic data across the Americas from 1,308 nuclear microsatellite DNA studies, 897 species, and 9,090 genetically distinct populations where genetic differentiation (F_ST) was measured. Caribbean populations were particularly distinguished from North, Central, and South American populations, in having higher differentiation (F_ST = 0.12 vs. 0.07-0.09) and lower mean numbers of alleles (MNA = 4.11 vs. 4.84-5.54). While mammalian populations had lower MNA (4.86) than anadromous fish, reptiles, amphibians, freshwater fish, and birds (5.34-7.81), me

SUBMITTER: Lawrence ER 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6472428 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature