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Historical spatial range expansion and a very recent bottleneck of Cinnamomum kanehirae Hay. (Lauraceae) in Taiwan inferred from nuclear genes.
BMC evolutionary biology - 30 Apr 2010
Liao Pei-Chun, Kuo Dai-Chang, Lin Chia-Chia, Ho Kuo-Chieh, Lin Tsan-Piao, Hwang Shih-Ying
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Species in the varied geographic topology of Taiwan underwent obvious demographic changes during glacial periods. Cinnamomum kanehirae has been exploited for timber and to obtain medicinal fungi for the past 100 years. Understanding anthropogenic factors influencing the demography of this species after the last glacial maximum (LGM) is critically important for the conservation of this species....
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