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Molecular analysis of the Pleistocene history of Saxifraga oppositifolia in the Alps.
Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 2002
Holderegger R, Stehlik I, Abbott R J
Abstract excerpt
A recent circumpolar survey of chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) haplotypes identified Pleistocene glacial refugia for the Arctic-Alpine Saxifraga oppositifolia in the Arctic and, potentially, at more southern latitudes. However, evidence for glacial refugia within the ice sheet covering northern Europe during the last glacial period was not detected either with cpDNA or in another study of S. oppositifolia that surveyed...
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