Phylogeography of North African Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica, Pinaceae): Combined molecular and fossil data reveal a complex Quaternary history

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1262-1269

  Terrab, Anass ^a,b   Hampe, Arndt ^c   Lepais, Olivier ^c   Talavera, Salvador ^b   Vela, Errol ^d   Stuessy, Tod F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

AFLP; Algeria; Diversity; Gene flow; Glacial refugia; Morocco; Nonmetric multidimensional scaling analysis; Population divergence; Range contraction; Structure program

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COLONIZATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DIVERGENCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FOSSIL RECORD; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PALEOBOTANY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; QUATERNARY; RANGE SIZE; REFUGIUM;

AFRICA; ALGERIA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

ATLAS CEDAR; CEDRUS; CEDRUS ATLANTICA; PINACEAE;

EID: 53249127351     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.0800010     Document Type: Article

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