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SUBMITTER: Wang J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3907101 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang J J Källman T T Liu J J Guo Q Q Wu Y Y Lin K K Lascoux M M
Heredity 20130925 2
Despite the evidence that the Pleistocene climatic fluctuations have seriously affected the distribution of intraspecific diversity, less is known on its impact on interspecific divergence. In this study, we aimed to test the hypothesis that the divergence of two desert poplar species Populus euphratica Oliv. and P. pruinosa Schrenk. occurred during the Pleistocene. We sequenced 11 nuclear loci in 60 individuals from the two species to estimate the divergence time between them and to test whethe ...[more]