Genetic similarity of natural populations and plantations of Pinus roxburghii Sarg. in Nepal

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Table I

Summary of genetic variation parameters at three nuclear microsatellites for each natural and planted population.

Natural		Dadeldhura	Salyan	Palpa	Parbat	Bhaktapur	Mean over NR
LOP1
	N	40	39	40	40	40	39.8
	Na	4	5	5	5	5	4.8
	Ne	1.26	1.46	1.66	1.41	1.62	1.48
	Ho	0.23	0.28	0.33	0.33	0.38	0.31
	He	0.21	0.32	0.4	0.29	0.39	0.32
	F	–0.09	0.1	0.18	–0.12	0.02	0.02
PtTX2123
	N	40	37	40	40	35	38.4
	Na	8	7	5	5	5	6
	Ne	4.5	4.33	3.62	3.09	3.67	3.84
	Ho	0.75	0.81	0.65	0.65	0.83	0.74
	He	0.79	0.78	0.73	0.68	0.74	0.74
	F	0.04	–0.05	0.1	0.04	–0.14	0
PtTX3107
	N	40	40	40	40	40	40
	Na	3	5	3	5	5	4.2
	Ne	1.96	2.44	1.96	2.12	1.86	2.07
	Ho	0.48	0.55	0.38	0.45	0.43	0.46
	He	0.5	0.6	0.49	0.54	0.47	0.52
	F	0.03	0.07	0.23	0.15	0.08	0.11
Mean
	N	40	38.67	40	40	38.33	39.4
	N	5	5.67	4.33	5	5	5
	Ne	2.58	2.74	2.41	2.21	2.38	2.46
	Ho	0.48	0.55	0.45	0.48	0.54	0.5
	He	0.5	0.56	0.54	0.5	0.53	0.53
	F	0.01	0.04	0.17	0.02	–0.01	0.04

Plantation		Dadeldhura	Salyan	Palpa	Parbat	Bhaktapur	Mean over PL

LOP1
	N	39	38	40	40	40	39.4
	Na	4	5	5	4	6	4.8
	Ne	1.27	1.32	1.44	1.53	1.58	1.43
	Ho	0.23	0.26	0.23	0.35	0.38	0.29
	He	0.22	0.24	0.31	0.35	0.37	0.3
	F	–0.09	–0.09	0.26	–0.01	–0.01	0.01
PtTX2123
	N	38	36	39	37	40	38
	Na	6	6	5	5	6	5.6
	Ne	3.29	4.86	3.5	4.38	4.1	4.03
	Ho	0.76	0.83	0.74	0.76	0.68	0.75
	He	0.7	0.81	0.72	0.78	0.77	0.76
	F	–0.1	–0.05	–0.04	0.02	0.11	–0.01
PtTX3107
	N	37	39	40	39	40	39
	Na	5	4	3	5	5	4.4
	Ne	2.38	2.37	1.78	1.66	2.19	2.08
	Ho	0.62	0.44	0.3	0.41	0.5	0.45
	He	0.59	0.59	0.45	0.4	0.55	0.51
	F	–0.07	0.25	0.32	–0.03	0.08	0.11
Mean
	N	38	37.67	39.67	38.67	40	38.8
	Na	5	5	4.33	4.67	5.67	4.93
	Ne	2.31	2.85	2.24	2.52	2.62	2.51
	Ho	0.54	0.51	0.42	0.51	0.52	0.5
	He	0.5	0.54	0.49	0.51	0.56	0.52
	F	–0.08	0.03	0.18	–0.01	0.05	0.04

N : sample size; Na : number of alleles; Ne : effective number of alleles; Ho : observed heterozygosity; He : expected heterozygosity; F : fixation index.