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Speciation of two desert poplar species triggered by Pleistocene climatic oscillations.
Heredity - 1 Feb 2014
Wang J, Källman T, Liu J, Guo Q, Wu Y, Lin K, Lascoux M
Abstract excerpt
Despite the evidence that the Pleistocene climatic fluctuations have seriously affected the distribution of intraspecific diversity, less is known on its impact on interspecific divergence. In this study, we aimed to test the hypothesis that the divergence of two desert poplar species Populus euphratica Oliv. and P. pruinosa Schrenk. occurred during the Pleistocene. We sequenced 11 nuclear loci in 60 individuals...
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