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Impact of ice ages on circumpolar molecular diversity: insights from an ecological key species.
Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 2005
Alsos I G, Engelskjøn T, Gielly L, Taberlet P, Brochmann C
Abstract excerpt
We address the impact of the ice age cycles on intraspecific cpDNA diversity, for the first time on the full circumboreal-circumarctic scale. The bird-dispersed bog bilberry (or arctic blueberry, Vaccinium uliginosum) is a key component of northern ecosystems and is here used to assess diversity in previously glaciated vs. unglaciated areas and the importance of Beringia as a refugium and source for interglacial...
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