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Tertiary origin and pleistocene diversification of dragon blood tree (Dracaena cambodiana-Asparagaceae) populations in the Asian tropical forests.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Zhao Jian-Li, Zhang Lu, Dayanandan Selvadurai, Nagaraju Shivaprakash, Liu Dong-Mei, Li Qiao-Ming
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The origin of extraordinarily rich biodiversity in tropical forests is often attributed to evolution under stable climatic conditions over a long period or to climatic fluctuations during the recent Quaternary period. Here, we test these two hypotheses using Dracaena cambodiana, a plant species distributed in paleotropical forests. METHODS: WE ANALYZED NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE DATA OF TWO CHLOROPLAST DNA...
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