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Molecular footprints of the Holocene retreat of dwarf birch in Britain.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2014
Wang Nian, Borrell James S, Bodles William J A, Kuttapitiya Anasuya, Nichols Richard A, Buggs Richard J A
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Past reproductive interactions among incompletely isolated species may leave behind a trail of introgressed alleles, shedding light on historical range movements. Betula pubescens is a widespread native tetraploid tree species in Britain, occupying habitats intermediate to those of its native diploid relatives, B. pendula and B. nana. Genotyping 1134 trees from the three species at 12 microsatellite loci, we...
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