Rare arctic‐alpine plants of the European Alps have different immigration histories: the snow bed species Minuartia biflora and Ranunculus pygmaeus

• Published in: Molecular Ecology
• Main Authors: SCHÖNSWETTER, P., POPP, M., BROCHMANN, C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2006
• Subjects: Greenland; North Atlantic; Ranunculus pygmaeus; Svalbard; Taymyr; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2006.02821.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1365-294X.2006.02821.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.02821.x

Abstract Minuartia biflora and Ranunculus pygmaeus are circumarctic plants with a few isolated occurrences in the European Alps. We analysed amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) and chloroplast DNA sequence data to unravel the history of their immigration into the Alps and to provide data o...