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Phylogeographic patterns of the desert poplar in Northwest China shaped by both geology and climatic oscillations.
BMC evolutionary biology - 25 May 2018
Zeng Yan-Fei, Zhang Jian-Guo, Abuduhamiti Bawerjan, Wang Wen-Ting, Jia Zhi-Qing
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BACKGROUND: The effects of historical geology and climatic events on the evolution of plants around the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau region have been at the center of debate for years. To identify the influence of the uplift of the Tianshan Mountains and/or climatic oscillations on the evolution of plants in arid northwest China, we investigated the phylogeography of the Euphrates poplar (Populus euphratica) using...
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