Plant molecular phylogeography in China and adjacent regions: Tracing the genetic imprints of Quaternary climate and environmental change in the world's most diverse temperate flora

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 225-244

  Qiu, Ying Xiong ^a,b   Fu, Cheng Xing ^a,b   Comes, Hans Peter ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

China; Glacial refugia; Last Glacial Maximum (LGM); Phylogeography; Postglacial colonization; Qinghai Tibetan Plateau; Quaternary; Temperate flora

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; FAR EAST; GENETICS; ICE COVER; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLANT; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ALTITUDE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; FAR EAST; GENETIC SPECIATION; ICE COVER; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLANTS;

EID: 79952738839     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.01.012     Document Type: Review

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