Blast from the past: Jack pine genetics support a coastal glacial refugium
Monday, November 29, 2010 - 16:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Can a road-trip across eastern North America, ancient ice sheets, and DNA samples unlock the ancestral history of jack pine trees? Julie Godbout and colleagues from the Université Laval, Quebec, Canada, certainly hoped that driving across northeastern U.S. and Canada to collect samples from jack pine trees would shed some light on how glaciers may have impacted present-day pine genetics.