Inferring multiple refugia and phylogeographical patterns in Pinus massoniana based on nucleotide sequence variation and DNA fingerprinting.

Pinus massoniana, an ecologically and economically important conifer, is widespread across central and southern mainland China and Taiwan. In this study, we tested the central-marginal paradigm that predicts that the marginal populations tend to be less polymorphic than the central ones in their gen...

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Main Authors: Xue-Jun Ge, Tsai-Wen Hsu, Kuo-Hsiang Hung, Chung-Jian Lin, Chi-Chung Huang, Chao-Ching Huang, Yu-Chung Chiang, Tzen-Yuh Chiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3430689?pdf=render