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Polyploidy in the olive complex (Olea europaea): evidence from flow cytometry and nuclear microsatellite analyses.
Annals of botany - 1 Jan 2008
Besnard G, Garcia-Verdugo C, De Casas R Rubio, Treier U A, Galland N, Vargas P
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BACKGROUND: Phylogenetic and phylogeographic investigations have been previously performed to study the evolution of the olive tree complex (Olea europaea). A particularly high genomic diversity has been found in north-west Africa. However, to date no exhaustive study has been addressed to infer putative polyploidization events and their evolutionary significance in the diversification of the olive tree and its...
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