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Relatedness defies biogeography: the tale of two island endemics (Acacia heterophylla and A. koa).
The New phytologist - 1 Oct 2014
Le Roux Johannes J, Strasberg Dominique, Rouget Mathieu, Morden Clifford W, Koordom Megan, Richardson David M
Abstract excerpt
Despite the normally strong link between geographic proximity and relatedness of recently diverged taxa, truly puzzling biogeographic anomalies to this expectation exist in nature. Using a dated phylogeny, population genetic structure and estimates of ecological niche overlap, we tested the hypothesis that two geographically very disjunct, but morphologically very similar, island endemics (Acacia heterophylla...
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