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Contrasting genetic signal of recolonization after rainforest fragmentation in African trees with different dispersal abilities.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 Jul 2021
Piñeiro Rosalía, Hardy Olivier J, Tovar Carolina, Gopalakrishnan Shyam, Garrett Vieira Filipe, Gilbert M Thomas P
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Although today the forest cover is continuous in Central Africa, this may have not always been the case, as the scarce fossil record in this region suggests that arid conditions might have significantly reduced tree density during the ice ages. Our aim was to investigate whether the dry ice age periods left a genetic signature on tree species that can be used to infer the date of the past fragmentation of the...
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