Phylogeography and Genetic Diversity in a Southern North American Desert: Agave kerchovei From the Tehuacan-Cuicatlan Valley, Mexico.

ABSTRACT: The Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, located at the southeast of the state of Puebla and the northeast of the state of Oaxaca in Central Mexico, south of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (TMVB), is of particular interest for understanding the evolutionary dynamics of arid and semi-arid environments, being one of the main reservoirs of biological diversity for the arid zones of North America, including the highest diversity of Agavaceae worldwide and high levels of endemism. Studying in detail the phylogeography, environmental history and population genetics of representative species will hopefully shed light on the evolutionary and ecological dynamics that generated the tremendous biodiversity and endemism of this important region in Mexico. We sequenced three non-coding regions of chloroplast ge

SUBMITTER: Aguirre-Planter E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7358651 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature