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Molecular Biogeography of Prickly Lettuce (Lactuca serriola L.) Shows Traces of Recent Range Expansion.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Mar 2017
D'Andrea Luigi, Meirmans Patrick, van de Wiel Clemens, Guadagnuolo Roberto, van Treuren Robbert, Kozlowski Gregor, den Nijs Hans, Felber François
Abstract excerpt
Prickly lettuce (Lactuca serriola L., Asteraceae), a wild relative of cultivated lettuce, is an autogamous species which greatly expanded throughout Western and Northern Europe during the last 2 centuries. Here, we present a large-scale biogeographic genetic analysis performed on a dataset represented by 2622 individuals from 110 wild European populations. Thirty-two maternally inherited chloroplast RFLP-markers...
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