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Ice ages leave genetic diversity 'hotspots' in Europe but not in Eastern North America.
Ecology letters - 1 Nov 2017
Lumibao Candice Y, Hoban Sean M, McLachlan Jason
Abstract excerpt
After the last glacial cycle, temperate European trees migrated northward, experiencing genetic bottlenecks and founder effects, which left high haplotype endemism in southern populations and clines in genetic diversity northward. These patterns are thought to be ubiquitous across temperate forests, and are therefore used to anticipate the potential genetic consequences of future warming. We compared existing and...
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