“…Studies of genetic diversity in palm species have been increasing in the last decades and, in most of them, the level of genetic diversity was high, with the percentage of polymorphic loci ~100%, the number of alleles per locus greater than four, and heterozygosity higher than 0.5 (e.g., Conte et al, 2003;Meerow et al, 2003;Choo et al, 2010;Gaiero et al, 2011;Gomes et al, 2011). Other population genetic structure parameters, such as Wright's inbreeding coefficient and gene flow, have shown that, in general, genetic differentiation (F ST ) is low, indicating genetic variation higher within -rather than among -populations and a high gene flow among populations (Elshibli and Korpelainen, 2008;Martins-Corder et al, 2009;Shapcott et al, 2009;Namoff et al, 2011;Silva et al, 2011;Giovino et al, 2014;Nazareno and dos Reis, 2014;Oliveira et al, 2014;Moura et al, 2015).…”