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Incipient radiation within the dominant Hawaiian tree Metrosideros polymorpha.
Heredity - 1 Oct 2014
Stacy E A, Johansen J B, Sakishima T, Price D K, Pillon Y
Abstract excerpt
Although trees comprise a primary component of terrestrial species richness, the drivers and temporal scale of divergence in trees remain poorly understood. We examined the landscape-dominant tree, Metrosideros polymorpha, for variation at nine microsatellite loci across 23 populations on young Hawai'i Island, sampling each of the island's five varieties throughout its full geographic range. For four varieties,...
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