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Inferring multiple refugia and phylogeographical patterns in Pinus massoniana based on nucleotide sequence variation and DNA fingerprinting.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Ge Xue-Jun, Hsu Tsai-Wen, Hung Kuo-Hsiang, Lin Chung-Jian, Huang Chi-Chung, Huang Chao-Ching, Chiang Yu-Chung, Chiang Tzen-Yuh
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Pinus massoniana, an ecologically and economically important conifer, is widespread across central and southern mainland China and Taiwan. In this study, we tested the central-marginal paradigm that predicts that the marginal populations tend to be less polymorphic than the central ones in their genetic composition, and examined a founders' effect in the island population. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL...
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