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Phylogeography and allopatric divergence of cypress species (Cupressus L.) in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and adjacent regions.
BMC evolutionary biology - 22 Jun 2010
Xu Tingting, Abbott Richard J, Milne Richard I, Mao Kangshan, Du Fang K, Wu Guili, Ciren Zhaxi, Miehe Georg, Liu Jianquan
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BACKGROUND: Although allopatric speciation is viewed as the most common way in which species originate, allopatric divergence among a group of closely related species has rarely been examined at the population level through phylogeographic analysis. Here we report such a case study on eight putative cypress (Cupressus) species, which each have a mainly allopatric distribution in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP)...
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