Genetic diversity
The Expected and observed heterozygosity (He and Ho, respectively),
inbreeding coefficient (FIS), the percentages of
polymorphic loci (PPL) and the number of private alleles (PA), are
reported in the Table 1 for each sampling locality. Except for the low
value observed in Chile Chico (ChCh; PPL=12,668 %), PPL were fairly
homogeneous throughout the species range, varying from 18.794% in
Chillán (Ch) to 42.367% in Coyhaique (Coy) (Table 1). Four sampling
localities, Puerto Montt (PM), Chiloé norte (ChlN), Chiloé sur (ChlS)
and ChCh presented a lower PA (PA≤30) than the rest of the sampled range
(44<PA<83). Ch and Pumalín (Pu) were the only two
localities with a negative FIS value while four
localities (i.e., PM, ChlN, ChlS and ChCh) show positive values of
FIS superior to 0.1.
Table1:
Genetic diversity of Embothrium coccineum in each sampling
locality.