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Partitioning adaptive differentiation across a patchy landscape: shade avoidance traits in impatiens capensis.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Mar 2008
von Wettberg Eric J, Remington David L, Schmitt Johanna
Abstract excerpt
Adaptation to different habitat types across a patchy landscape may either arise independently in each patch or occur due to repeated colonization of each patch by the same specialized genotype. We tested whether open- and closed-canopy forms of Impatiens capensis, an herbaceous annual plant of eastern North America, have evolved repeatedly by comparing hierarchical measures of F(ST) estimated from AFLPs to...
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