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History matters more when explaining genetic diversity within the context of the core-periphery hypothesis.
Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 2015
Duncan Sarah I, Crespi Erica J, Mattheus Nichole M, Rissler Leslie J
Abstract excerpt
The core-periphery hypothesis (CPH) predicts that populations located at the periphery of a species' range should have lower levels of genetic variation than those at the centre of the range. However, most of the research on the CPH focuses on geographic distance and not on ecological distance, or uses categorical definitions of core and periphery to explain the distribution of genetic diversity. We use current...
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