title: Low Variation and High Differentiation of Marginal Relict Populations of Pinus brutia Ten. in the Crimean–Caucasian Region
abstract: Genetic diversity in marginal populations of woody plants has been studied using the example of Calabrian pine Pinus brutia Ten. in the eastern Black Sea Region, i.e., at the northeastern limit of the species range. The variability of the microsatellite loci of chloroplast DNA (cpSSR) has been analyzed in six relict populations from the Crimea and the Caucasus, followed by their comparison with a P. brutia sample from the central part of the range (Turkey) and with other pine species growing in 
journal: Russian Journal of Ecology