Contrasting genetic patterns between two coexisting Eleutherococcus species in northern China.

ABSTRACT: Climate oscillations are the key factors to understand the patterns in modern biodiversity. East Asia harbors the most diverse temperate flora, largely because an extensive terrestrial ice cap was absent during repeated Pleistocene glaciation-interglacial cycles. Comparing the demographic histories of species that are codistributed and are close relatives may provide insight into how the process of climate change influences species ranges. In this study, we compared the spatial genetic structure and demographic histories of two coexisting Eleutherococcus species, Eleutherococcus senticosus and E. sessiliflorus. Both species are distributed in northern China, regions that are generally considered to be sensitive to climatic fluctuations. These regions once hosted temperate forest, but this

SUBMITTER: Wang SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4833501 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature