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1、ACANDIDATEGENEAPPROACHTOTHEDETECTIONOFEDAPHICALLY-BASEDADAPTIVEDIVERGENCEBETWEENPINUSCONTORTASSP.CONTORTAANDPINUSCONTORTASSP.BOLANDERIHurshbirShahiB.S.,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis,1998THESISSubmittedinpartialsatisfactionoftherequirementsforthedegreeofMASTEROFSCIENCEinBIOLOGICALSCIEN
2、CES(BiologicalConservation)atCALIFORNIASTATEUNIVERSITY,SACRAMENTOFALL2010iiACANDIDATEGENEAPPROACHTOTHEDETECTIONOFEDAPHICALLY-BASEDADAPTIVEDIVERGENCEBETWEENPINUSCONTORTASSP.CONTORTAANDPINUSCONTORTASSP.BOLANDERIAThesisbyHurshbirShahiApprovedby:__________________________________,Committ
3、eeChairShannonDatwyler,PhD__________________________________,SecondReaderAndrewEckert,PhD__________________________________,ThirdReaderNicholasEwing,PhD__________________________________,FourthReaderJamieKneitel,PhD________________________DatexiStudent:HurshbirShahiIcertifythatthisst
4、udenthasmettherequirementsforformatcontainedintheUniversityformatmanual,andthatthisthesisissuitableforshelvingintheLibraryandcreditistobeawardedforthethesis._________________________,GraduateCoordinator_________________SusanneLindgren,PhDDateDepartmentofBiologicalSciencesxiAbstractof
5、ACANDIDATEGENEAPPROACHTOTHEDETECTIONOFEDAPHICALLY-BASEDADAPTIVEDIVERGENCEBETWEENPINUSCONTORTASSP.CONTORTAANDPINUSCONTORTASSP.BOLANDERIbyHurshbirShahiEdaphicconditionshavebeendocumentedasanimportantfactorintheadaptiveevolutionofplantspecies.ThesoilsinMendocinoCounty,Californiaareheavi
6、lypodzolizedyettheysustaindwarf,endemicconiferssuchasPinuscontortassp.bolanderi.(Bolanderpine)Interestingly,P.contortassp.contorta(shorepine),asistertaxon,occursjustoffthesesoilsanddoesnothavethedwarfstaturethatBolanderpinedisplays.Becauseofthevariationinenvironmentsthatsupporteachsu
7、bspecies,theseconifersprovideanidealsystemforexaminingthegeneticpolymorphismsassociatedwithplantsspecializedfordifferentedaphicconditionsandtheroleofsuchconditionsinadaptivedivergence.ThisstudycharacterizespatternsofDNApolymorphismsfor24candidategenesrelatedtogrowthandfivedifferentco
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