Pinus kesiya and its sister species Pinus yunnanensis form savanna and forest communities in tropical and subtropical Southeast Asia (SEA). Their ranges overlap in southern Yunnan and have a wide zone of contact. To date, range-wide investigation of the pine species in SEA has not been performed. How Quaternary climate oscillations affect the geographic genetic structure and introgression among species remains unclear.
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Source: Phys.org