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Postglacial recolonization and cpDNA variation of silver birch, Betula pendula.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jan 2003
Palmé A E, Su Q, Rautenberg A, Manni F, Lascoux M
Abstract excerpt
Chloroplast PCR-RFLP markers were used to reconstruct the history of the silver birch, Betula pendula Roth, in Europe since the last glacial maximum (LGM). In birch, fossil pollen maps do not reveal a clear chronological sequence of postglacial spread. If anything, the pollen record suggests that most of Europe was recolonized by birches as early as 10000 bp, probably from populations that remained close to the...
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