The importance of Anatolian mountains as the cradle of global diversity in Arabis alpina, a key arctic–alpine species
Journal: Annals of Botany
Year: 2011

The phylogeographic structure of Arabis alpina is consistent with Anatolia being the cradle of origin for global genetic diversification. The highly structured landscape in combination with the Pleistocene climate fluctuations has created a network of mountain refugia and the accumulation of spatially arranged genotypes. This local Pleistocene population history has subsequently left a genetic imprint at the global scale, through four range expansions from the Anatolian diversity centre into Eur