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Historical bottlenecks decrease genetic diversity in natural populations of Dryopteris cristata.
Heredity - 1 Sept 2001
Landergott U, Holderegger R, Kozlowski G, Schneller J J
Abstract excerpt
The reconstruction of recent historical population sizes allowed us to investigate the influence of random evolutionary processes on present-day genetic diversity in populations of Dryopteris cristata. This long-lived, allotetraploid fern is rare and endangered in the study area at the southwestern border of its European distribution. Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) diversity of 280 individuals from 14...
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