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Geological and climatic changes in quaternary shaped the evolutionary history of Calibrachoa heterophylla, an endemic South-Atlantic species of petunia.
BMC evolutionary biology - 29 Aug 2013
Mäder Geraldo, Fregonezi Jéferson N, Lorenz-Lemke Aline P, Bonatto Sandro L, Freitas Loreta B
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BACKGROUND: The glacial and interglacial cycles that characterized the Quaternary greatly affected the distribution and genetic diversity of plants. In the Neotropics, few phylogeographic studies have focused on coastal species outside of the Atlantic Rainforest. Climatic and sea level changes during the Quaternary played an important role in the evolutionary history of many organisms found in coastal regions. To...
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