Climate Is Not All: Evidence From Phylogeography of Rhodiola fastigiata (Crassulaceae) and Comparison to Its Closest Relatives.

ABSTRACT: How geological events and climate oscillations in the Pleistocene glaciation shaped the geographic distribution of genetic variation of species on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) and its adjacent areas has been extensively studied. However, little studies have investigated whether closely related species in the same genus with similar physiological and life history traits responded similarly to the glacial climatic oscillations. If this is not the case, we would expect that the population histories of studied species were not driven by extrinsic environmental changes alone. Here we conducted a phylogeographic study of a succulent alpine plant Rhodiola fastigiata, using sequences from chloroplast genome and nrITS region, as well as ecological niche modeling. The results of R. fa

SUBMITTER: Zhang JQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5912201 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature