Pleistocene colonization of afro-alpine ‘sky islands’ by the arctic-alpine Arabis alpina
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عنوان ژورنال: Heredity
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0018-067X,1365-2540
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800974