Fig trees at the northern limit of their range: the distributions of cryptic pollinators indicate multiple glacial refugia

• Published in: Molecular ecology Vol. 21; no. 7; pp. 1687 - 1701
• Main Authors: CHEN, YAN, COMPTON, STEPHEN G., LIU, MIN, CHEN, XIAO-YONG
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2012
• Subjects: Agaonidae; Animal populations; Animals; Biological Evolution; China; Climate; Climate change; co-evolution; demographic history; Dispersal; Distribution patterns; DNA, Mitochondrial; DNA, Mitochondrial - genetics; DNA, Plant; DNA, Plant - genetics; DNA, Ribosomal Spacer; DNA, Ribosomal Spacer - genetics; Europe; Ficus; Ficus - genetics; Ficus pumila; fig wasp; figs; Fruit trees; genes; Genetic structure; genetics; Genetics, Population; glacial refugium; Glaciers; host plants; host range; Hymenoptera; Ice ages; Insects; islands; Mountains; North America; nucleotide sequences; Phylogeny; phylogeography; Pollination; Pollinators; Population genetics; Population growth; Quaternary; refuge habitats; Refugia; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Taiwan; Trees; Wasps; Wiebesia; China; ISEW, Pacific, Taiwan Strait; North America; ANE, Europe; China, People's Rep; Europe; Taiwan

Climatic oscillations during the last few million years had well‐documented effects on the distributions and genomes of temperate plants and animals, but much less is known of their impacts on tropical and subtropical species. In contrast to Europe and North America, ice‐sheets did not cover most of...