Comparative phylogeography of two sympatric beeches in subtropical China: Species-specific geographic mosaic of lineages.

ABSTRACT: In subtropical China, large-scale phylogeographic comparisons among multiple sympatric plants with similar ecological preferences are scarce, making generalizations about common response to historical events necessarily tentative. A phylogeographic comparison of two sympatric Chinese beeches (Fagus lucida and F. longipetiolata, 21 and 28 populations, respectively) was conducted to test whether they have responded to historical events in a concerted fashion and to determine whether their phylogeographic structure is exclusively due to Quaternary events or it is also associated with pre-Quaternary events. Twenty-three haplotypes were recovered for F. lucida and F. longipetiolata (14 each one and five shared). Both species exhibited a species-specific mosaic distribution of haplotypes, with m

SUBMITTER: Zhang ZY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3856746 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature