Molecular phylogeography and ecological niche modelling of a widespread herbaceous climber, Tetrastigma hemsleyanum (Vitaceae): Insights into Plio-Pleistocene range dynamics of evergreen forest in subtropical China

New Phytologist

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 852-867

  Wang, Yi Han ^a   Jiang, Wei Mei ^a   Comes, Hans Peter ^b   Hu, Feng Sheng ^c   Qiu, Ying Xiong ^a   Fu, Cheng Xin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Tetrastigma hemsleyanum; Ancestral area reconstruction; Ecological niche modelling (ENM); Phylogenetic analyses; Phylogeographical inference; Warm temperate evergreen (WTE) forest

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVERGREEN FOREST; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NICHE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION;

CHINA;

TETRASTIGMA; VITACEAE;

CHLOROPLAST DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FOREST; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VITACEAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHINA; CLIMATE; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; ENVIRONMENT; FORESTS; GENE FLOW; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VITACEAE;

EID: 84925260551     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13261     Document Type: Article

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