Phylogeography and reticulate homoploid evolution in Androsace sect. Aretia

Principal investigator: Dr. Peter Schönswetter, Department of Biogeography, Faculty Centre Botany, University of Vienna

The project „Phylogeography and reticulate homoploid evolution in Androsace sect. Aretia“ (Primulaceae) explores the evolution of the mainly southern European distributed section Aretia within the genus Androsace/androsace.

Publications

Dixon, C.J., Schönswetter, P., Suda, J., Wiedermann, M., & Schneeweiss, G.M. (2009) Reciprocal Pleistocene origin and postglacial range formation of an allopolyploid and its sympatric ancestors (Androsace adfinis group, Primulaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 50: 74–83; peer-reviewed, impact factor of the journal: 3.994. [accepted: 13.10.2008; 10.000 characters]

Schönswetter, P., & Schneeweiss, G.M. (2009) Androsace komovensis sp. nov., a long mistaken local endemic from the southern Balkan Peninsula with biogeographic links to the Eastern Alps. Taxon, in press; peer-reviewed, impact factor of the journal: 2.524;[accepted: 2.09.2008; > 10.000 characters]