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Analysis of microsatellite variation in Pinus radiata reveals effects of genetic drift but no recent bottlenecks.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Jan 2006
Karhu A, Vogl C, Moran G F, Bell J C, Savolainen O
Abstract excerpt
Most conifer species occur in large continuous populations, but radiata pine, Pinus radiata, occurs only in five disjunctive natural populations in California and Mexico. The Mexican island populations were presumably colonized from the mainland millions of years ago. According to Axelrod (1981), the mainland populations are relicts of an earlier much wider distribution, reduced some 8,000 years ago, whereas...
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