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Patterns of polymorphism resulting from long-range colonization in the Mediterranean conifer Aleppo pine

  1. Delphine Grivet1,†,
  2. Federico Sebastiani2,3,†,
  3. Santiago C. González-Martínez1,
  4. Giovanni G. Vendramin3

Article first published online: 1 SEP 2009

DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03015.x

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Grivet, D., Sebastiani, F., González-Martínez, S. C. and Vendramin, G. G. (2009), Patterns of polymorphism resulting from long-range colonization in the Mediterranean conifer Aleppo pine. New Phytologist, 184: 1016–1028. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03015.x

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  1. 1

    Department of Forest Systems and Resources, Forest Research Institute, CIFOR-INIA, Carretera de la Coruña km 7.5, ES–28040 Madrid, Spain

  2. 2

    Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Genexpress, University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 14, I–50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy

  3. 3

    Plant Genetics Institute, Division of Florence, National Research Council, via Madonna del Piano 10, I–50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy

  1. †

    These authors contributed equally to this work.

*Author for correspondence: Santiago C. González-Martínez Tel: +34 913471499 Email: santiago@inia.es

  1. †

    These authors contributed equally to this work.

  2. Original sequences have been deposited with the EMBL/GenBank Data Libraries under accession numbers FJ588494–FJ588503.

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  1. Issue published online: 6 NOV 2009
  2. Article first published online: 1 SEP 2009
  3. Received: 16 April 2009, Accepted: 12 July 2009

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