Article
Molecular phylogeography and ecological niche modelling of a widespread herbaceous climber, Tetrastigma hemsleyanum (Vitaceae): insights into Plio-Pleistocene range dynamics of evergreen forest in subtropical China.
The New phytologist - 1 Apr 2015
Wang Yi-Han, Jiang Wei-Mei, Comes Hans Peter, Hu Feng Sheng, Qiu Ying-Xiong, Fu Cheng-Xin
Abstract excerpt
Warm-temperate evergreen (WTE) forest represents the typical vegetation type of subtropical China, but how its component species responded to past environmental change remains largely unknown. Here, we reconstruct the evolutionary history of Tetrastigma hemsleyanum, an herbaceous climber restricted to the WTE forest. Twenty populations were genotyped using chloroplast DNA sequences and nuclear microsatellite loci...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Biological Evolution
- China
- Climate
- DNA, Chloroplast
- Environment
- Forests
- Gene Flow
- Genotype
- Haplotypes
- Microsatellite Repeats
