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SUBMITTER: Yang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6303402 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20181221 1
Increased human activity and climate change are driving numerous tree species to endangered status, and in the worst cases extinction. Here we examine the genomic signatures of the critically endangered ironwood tree Ostrya rehderiana and its widespread congener O. chinensis. Both species have similar demographic histories prior to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM); however, the effective population size of O. rehderiana continued to decrease through the last 10,000 years, whereas O. chinensis reco ...[more]