Article
Reconstructing the survival history of relict herbs endemic to the heavy snowfall regions of Japan during the Pleistocene.
Journal of plant research - 1 Sept 2026
Yoichi Watanabe, Gozono Momoka, Koide Hinata, Ishida Hotaka, Nagasawa Koki, Masuda Kazutoshi, Sakaguchi Shota
Abstract excerpt
The effects of past environmental changes on the demography and genetic diversity of relict species remain poorly understood. Such studies have rarely been conducted across multiple phylogenetically distant species, largely because of their rarity. Here, we investigated impacts of long-term climatic changes on the evolution and survival of three herbaceous Tertiary relict species endemic to heavy snowfall regions...
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- Japan
- Phylogeography
- Genetic Variation
- Phylogeny
- Snow
- Magnoliopsida
