Recent, Late Pleistocene fragmentation shaped the phylogeographic structure of the European black pine (Pinus nigra Arnold)
Journal: Tree Genetics & Genomes
Year: 2019

Fragmentation acting over geological times confers wide, biogeographical scale and genetic diversity patterns to species, through demographic and natural selection processes. To test the effects of historical fragmentation on the genetic diversity and differentiation of a widespread forest tree, Pinus nigra Arnold, the European black pine, and to resolve its demographic history, we described and modelled its spatial genetic structure and gene genealogy. We then tested which Pleistocene event, wh