The influence of a relict distribution on genetic structure and variation in the Mediterranean tree, Platanus orientalis.

ABSTRACT: The distribution of plant species around the Mediterranean basin is a product of the influence of both geographical barriers and of climatic changes experienced during the Tertiary, with the transition from a warm to cool periods. Several species, once largely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere, retracted to refugial areas in southern Europe where they are described as Tertiary relicts. Platanus orientalis is a typical representative of Tertiary flora in southwest Eurasia; its distribution spreads from the Caucasus to the Mediterranean, with its western border in Southern Italy and Sicily. We analysed genetic diversity and differentiation in the centre and western part of its distribution range using nuclear microsatellites and compared genetic parameters between core and we

SUBMITTER: Rinaldi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6381769 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature