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Introgression in peripheral populations and colonization shape the genetic structure of the coastal shrub Armeria pungens.
Heredity - 1 Feb 2011
Piñeiro R, Widmer A, Aguilar J Fuertes, Nieto Feliner G
Abstract excerpt
The coastal shrub Armeria pungens has a disjunct Atlantic-Mediterranean distribution. The historic range expansion underlying this distribution was investigated using the nuclear internal transcribed spacer region, three plastid regions (namely trnL-F, trnS-fM and matK) and morphometric data. A highly diverse ancestral lineage was identified in southwest Portugal. More recently, two areas have been colonized: (1)...
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