Integrated Fossil and Molecular Data Reveal the Biogeographic Diversification of the Eastern Asian-Eastern North American Disjunct Hickory Genus (Carya Nutt.)

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Zhang, Jing-Bo, Li, Rui-Qi, Xiang, Xiao-Guo, Manchester, Steven R., Lin, Li, Wang, Wei, Wen, Jun, Chen, Zhi-Duan
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2013
• Subjects: Research Article; Lagrange; Nutt; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3713062; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23875028; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070449

The hickory genus (Carya) contains ca. 17 species distributed in subtropical and tropical regions of eastern Asia and subtropical to temperate regions of eastern North America. Previously, the phylogenetic relationships between eastern Asian and eastern North American species of Carya were not fully...