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Chloroplast DNA phylogeography of a distylous shrub (Palicourea padifolia, Rubiaceae) reveals past fragmentation and demographic expansion in Mexican cloud forests.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Dec 2011
Gutiérrez-Rodríguez Carla, Ornelas Juan Francisco, Rodríguez-Gómez Flor
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Several phylogeographic studies in northern Mesoamerica have examined the influence of Pleistocene glaciations on the genetic structure of temperate tree species with their southern limit by the contact zone between species otherwise characteristic of North or South America, but few have featured plant species that presumably colonized northern Mesoamerica from South America. A phylogeographical study of...
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