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Brassica napus (AACC, oilseed rape) is an allotetraploid species derived from the putative progenitor diploid species B.rapa (AA) and B. oleracea (CC). To assess the
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Salinity stress impacts myriad aspects of a plant’s function, with potentially catastrophic results for crop yield. As an alternative to studying overall salinity tolerance according
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Dolines, small to large-sized bowl-shaped depressions of karst surfaces, may constitute important microrefugia for many vascular plants, as thermal inversion maintains cooler conditions within
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A small change in altitude can make a big difference in the right place.
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Glacial-interglacial climate cycles have far-reaching consequences for ecosystems and it is widely recognised that regions with a history of unstable climates have few endemic
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Being able to lie dormant is a huge advantage for a seed but, in the campo rupestre of Brazil, the seeds are unusually impatient.
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Endemic species in biodiversity hotspots are often dependent on edaphic conditions and germination strategies that allow them to persist under climatically variable conditions. Torres-Martinez et
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Souza et al. investigate the role of Pleistocene climate changes in driving the geographic distribution and genetic diversity of Dimorphandra mollis, a tree species endemic to
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Relative phylogenetic endemism (RPE) is a phylogenetic measure of endemism allowing for differentiation between centres of paleo- and neo-endemism. Molina-Venegas et al. apply an
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Estimated future climate scenarios can be used to predict where hotspots of endemism may occur over the next century, but life history, ecological and genetic traits
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What causes endemism hotspots? In a world of climate change, these refugia may be connected to areas of relative climate stability.
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In eukaryotic lineages with monocentric chromosomes, centromeres and centromeric histone H3 (CENH3) undergo a recurrent evolutionary conflict, whereby selfish centromeres subvert female meiosis, and CENH3 evolves