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Westward range expansion from middle latitudes explains the Mississippi River discontinuity in a forest herb of eastern North America.
Molecular ecology - 1 Nov 2020
Prior Carly J, Layman Nathan C, Koski Matthew H, Galloway Laura F, Busch Jeremiah W
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It is often expected that temperate plants have expanded their geographical ranges northward from primarily southern refugia. Evidence for this hypothesis is mixed in eastern North American species, and there is increasing support for colonization from middle latitudes. We studied genome-wide patterns of variation in RADseq loci to test hypotheses concerning range expansion in a North American forest herb...
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