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New insights on the origin of the woody flora of the Chihuahuan Desert: The case of Lindleya.
American journal of botany - 1 Sept 2016
Marilyn Vásquez-Cruz, Victoria Sosa
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY: We reconstructed aspects of the evolutionary history of Lindleya, a shrubby element in the rose family, as a model for identifying the ancestral area of the biota of the Chihuahuan Desert and for understanding the effect that pre-Pleistocene or Pleistocene climate fluctuations had on the evolution of the plants of this desert. METHODS: We conducted phylogenetic, biogeographic, and...
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