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Beyond species trees: pervasive gene flow limits phylogenomic resolution in the diversification of Juniperus from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Dec 2026
Zhang Yujiao, Li Jialiang, Wu Dayu, Yang Heng, Han Zhitong, Mao Kangshan
Abstract excerpt
Understanding how lineages diversify despite persistent ancestral polymorphism and recurrent gene flow remains a central challenge in evolutionary biology. Juniperus distributed across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau provide an ideal system for addressing this question because repeated geological uplift and climatic oscillations have likely promoted cycles of lineage divergence, range shifts, and secondary contact....
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- Gene Flow
- Phylogeny
- Juniperus
- Tibet
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Evolution, Molecular
