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Range expansion and lineage admixture of the Japanese evergreen tree Machilus thunbergii in central Japan.
Journal of plant research - 1 Nov 2014
Watanabe Shuntaro, Kaneko Yuko, Maesako Yuri, Noma Naohiko
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the range expansion histories of Machilus thunbergii populations in the Kinki region of central Japan on the basis of nuclear microsatellite data. In the Kinki region, M. thunbergii is typically found in the coastal area, with some fragmented populations inland, around Lake Biwa. Phylogenetic and Bayesian clustering analysis (STRUCTURE analysis) revealed that the inland populations have different...
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