Single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data for 1,085 adult individuals from 54 range-wide populations of 5 European conifer species

General description This dataset contains the Single Primer Enrichment Technology (SPET) data (variant call format -vcf- files) of five conifer species used in the manuscript "Genome-wide data to assist conservation in five European conifer species". The SNPs were selected based on DNA regions containing loci with a known adaptive function or putatively under selection, sequences of orthologous gene families with functions of interest, and genes with unknown functions and presumably neutral loci. For each species, between 161 and 371 genotyped trees are included, sampled across their European range in 9 to 15 locations. Three different datasets are provided for each species: (1) target SNPs (TARGET), (2) de novo SNPs - detected within 100 base pair (bp) distance from each targeted SNP (DENOVO) and (3) target and de novo SNPs combined (COMBINED), resulting in three vcf files per species, built as [species tag]_v5.2.2.1_[TARGET/DENOVO/COMBINED].vcf.gz. The vcf files can be opened and analyzed using the following custom-made pipeline: https://github.com/amfarsakoglou/GenTree_SPET_Pipeline_short_version. The file "GenTree consortium" lists all authors involved in DNA sampling and extraction. Species included: Abies alba Mill. (tag: AA), Pinus cembra L.(tag: PC), Pinus halepensis Mill.(tag: PH), Pinus nigra J.F.Arnold (tag: PN), and Taxus baccata L. (tag: TB)