VARIABILITY OF ALLOZYME LOCI IN POPULATIONS OF COMMON PINE

The authors studied levels of allozyme polymorphism and the stucture o f variability of common pine over a significant parr of its range. No reliable correlation was sound between the structure of allozyme varia bility and inhomogeneity of the habitat or the population's age struct ure. At the same time, the correlation of genetic differences in the s tudied samples with their relative geographic location is reliable. Th e evaluations obtained for genetic distances between different parts o f the range (Western and Eastern Siberia, Europe, the Caucasus, Ural, and Kazakhstan) require reconsideration of the generally accepted sche me of the species' intraspecific classification.