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Molecular signals for late Tertiary/early Quaternary range splits of an Eurasian steppe plant: Clausia aprica (Brassicaceae).
Molecular ecology - 1 Sept 2004
Franzke A, Hurka H, Janssen D, Neuffer B, Friesen N, Markov M, Mummenhoff K
Abstract excerpt
Several vegetation belts stretch continuously from Europe to Asia, taiga and steppe being most prominent. Numerous plant species within these belts share a conspicuous distribution area, which is longitudinally contracted or disrupted approximately along longitude 70 degrees E. To date no hypothesis for this intriguing distribution pattern has been put forward. We detected molecular footprints in the contemporary...
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