Recent phylogeographic structure in a widespread â•Ÿweedyâ•Ž Neotropical tree species, Cordia alliodora (Boraginaceae)
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Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Richmond, NSW 2753, Australia, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Herbarium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 481091048, USA, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, PO Box 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancón, Republic of Panama, Istituto di Genetica Vegetale, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze), Italy
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