DNA evidence supports a coastal northeastern Atlantic glacial refugium for a boreal tree species

Monday, November 29, 2010 - 14:31 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? Canadian researchers certainly hoped that driving across northeastern US and Canada to collect samples from jack pine trees would shed some light on how glaciers may have impacted present-day pine genetics.

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