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Tracing the origin of Gulf Coast Phragmites (Poaceae): a story of long-distance dispersal and hybridization.
American journal of botany - 1 Mar 2012
Lambertini Carla, Mendelssohn Irving A, Gustafsson Mats H G, Olesen Birgit, Riis Tenna, Sorrell Brian K, Brix Hans
Abstract excerpt
PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Long-distance dispersal can affect speciation processes in two opposing ways. Dispersal can promote geographic isolation or it can bring together geographically distant and distantly related genotypes, thus counteracting local differentiation. We used the Gulf Coast of North America (GC), a "hot spot" of reed diversity and evolutionary dynamics, as a model system to study the diversification...
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