Purifying selection does not drive signatures of convergent local adaptation of lodgepole pine and interior spruce

Abstract Background Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) and interior spruce (Picea glauca, Picea engelmannii, and their hybrids) are distantly related conifer species. Previous studies identified 47 genes containing variants associated with environmental variables in both species, providing evidence of...

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Main Authors: Mengmeng Lu, Kathryn A. Hodgins, Jon C. Degner, Sam Yeaman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-05-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-019-1438-8