Contrasting Phylogeographic Patterns in Lumnitzera Mangroves Across the Indo-West Pacific.

ABSTRACT: Mangroves are ecologically important forest communities in tropical and subtropical coasts, the effective management of which requires understanding of their phylogeographic patterns. However, these patterns often vary among different species, even among ecologically similar taxa or congeneric species. Here, we investigated the levels and patterns of genetic variation within Lumnitzera consisting of two species (L. racemosa and L. littorea) with nearly sympatric ranges across the Indo-West Pacific (IWP) region by sequencing three chloroplast DNA regions (for both species) and genotyping 11 nuclear microsatellite loci (for L. littorea). Consistent with findings in studies on other mangrove species, we found that both L. racemosa and L. littorea show

SUBMITTER: Guo W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8261646 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature