Phylogeographic patterns of the desert poplar in Northwest China shaped by both geology and climatic oscillations

Abstract Background The effects of historical geology and climatic events on the evolution of plants around the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau region have been at the center of debate for years. To identify the influence of the uplift of the Tianshan Mountains and/or climatic oscillations on the evolution...

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Main Authors: Yan-Fei Zeng, Jian-Guo Zhang, Bawerjan Abuduhamiti, Wen-Ting Wang, Zhi-Qing Jia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-018-1194-1