Testing putative African tropical forest refugia using chloroplast and nuclear DNA phylogeography

Tropical Plant Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 50-58

  Lowe, Andrew J ^a,b   Harris, David ^c   Dormontt, Eleanor ^a   Dawson, Ian K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b State Herbarium of South Australia ^*  (Australia)

^c ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Africa; Chloroplast loci; Nuclear variation; Phylogeography; Rainforest; Refugia

Indexed keywords

IRVINGIA GABONENSIS; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 77952322656     PISSN: 19359756     EISSN: 19359764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12042-010-9045-2     Document Type: Article

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