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A combined Molecular and Morphological Approach to the Taxonomically Intricate European Mountain Plant Papaver alpinum s.l. (Papaveraceae) — Taxa or Informal Phylogeographical Groups?

scientific article published on November 2009

A novel method to infer the origin of polyploids from Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism data reveals that the alpine polyploid complex of Senecio carniolicus (Asteraceae) evolved mainly via autopolyploidy

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A re-appraisal of nunatak survival in arctic-alpine phylogeography.

scientific article published in January 2011

Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism: An Invaluable Fingerprinting Technique for Genomic, Transcriptomic, and Epigenetic Studies

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Ancestral remnants or peripheral segregates? Phylogenetic relationships of two narrowly endemic species (Orobanchaceae) from the eastern European Alps

scientific article published on 19 February 2019

Androsace halleri subsp. nuria Schönsw. & Schneew. (Primulaceae), a new taxon from the eastern Pyrenees (Spain, France)

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Androsace komovensis sp. nov., a Long Mistaken Local Endemic from the Southern Balkan Peninsula with Biogeographic Links to the Eastern Alps

scientific article published on May 2009

Bayesian hypothesis testing supports long-distance Pleistocene migrations in a European high mountain plant (Androsace vitaliana, Primulaceae).

scientific article published on 19 July 2009

Beiträge zur Flora der Niederen Tauern östlich des Sölkpasses (Steiermark, Österreich)

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Break zones in the distributions of alleles and species in alpine plants

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Bringing together evolution on serpentine and polyploidy: spatiotemporal history of the diploid-tetraploid complex of Knautia arvensis (Dipsacaceae)

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BsRADseq: screening DNA methylation in natural populations of non-model species.

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Central Asian origin of and strong genetic differentiation among populations of the rare and disjunct <i>Carex atrofusca</i> (Cyperaceae) in the Alps

scientific article published in 2006

Circumpolar phylogeography of Juncus biglumis (Juncaceae) inferred from AFLP fingerprints, cpDNA sequences, nuclear DNA content and chromosome numbers

scientific article published on 6 July 2006

Comparative phylogeography of the Veronica alpina complex in Europe and North America

scientific article published in October 2006

Complex biogeographic patterns in Androsace (Primulaceae) and related genera: evidence from phylogenetic analyses of nuclear internal transcribed spacer and plastid trnL-F sequences.

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Complex distribution patterns of di-, tetra-, and hexaploid cytotypes in the European high mountain plant Senecio carniolicus (Asteraceae).

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Congruent evolutionary responses of European steppe biota to late Quaternary climate change

scientific article published on 08 April 2022

Contrasting evolutionary origins of two mountain endemics: Saxifraga wahlenbergii (Western Carpathians) and S. styriaca (Eastern Alps)

scientific article published on 11 January 2019

Corrigendum to “Genetic, cytological and morphological differentiation within the Balkan-Carpathian Sesleria rigida sensu Fl. Eur. (Poaceae), a taxonomically intricate tetraploid-octoploid complex”

scientific article (publication date: 20 December 2013)

Cytotype diversity and genome size variation in Knautia (Caprifoliaceae, Dipsacoideae).

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

Diploid chastity vs. polyploid promiscuity – Extensive gene flow among polyploid cytotypes blurs genetic, morphological and taxonomic boundaries among Dinaric taxa of Knautia (Caprifoliaceae)

scientific article published in 2023

Disentangling phylogeography, polyploid evolution and taxonomy of a woodland herb (Veronica chamaedrys group, Plantaginaceae s.l.) in southeastern Europe

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Disentangling relationships among the diploid members of the intricate genus Knautia (Caprifoliaceae, Dipsacoideae).

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Disentangling relationships among the members of the Silene saxifraga alliance (Caryophyllaceae): Phylogenetic structure is geographically rather than taxonomically segregated

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Disentangling relationships between the amphi-Adriatic Euphorbia spinosa and Balkan endemic E. glabriflora (Euphorbiaceae)

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Disentangling relationships within the disjunctly distributedAlyssum ovirense/A. wulfenianumgroup (Brassicaceae), including description of a novel species from the north-eastern Alps

scientific article published on 18 November 2014

Disentangling the taxonomic structure of the Allium paniculatum species complex in central and eastern Europe using molecular, cytogenetic and morphological tools

scientific article published in 2023

Distribution and habitat segregation on different spatial scales among diploid, tetraploid and hexaploid cytotypes of Senecio carniolicus (Asteraceae) in the Eastern Alps

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Diversification within ploidy-variable Balkan endemic <i>Cerastium decalvans</i> (Caryophyllaceae) reconstructed based on genetic, morphological and ecological evidence

scientific article published in 2021

Do pentaploid hybrids mediate gene flow between tetraploid Senecio disjunctus and hexaploid S. carniolicus s. str. (S. carniolicus aggregate, Asteraceae)?

scientific article published on 13 April 2021

Does hybridization with a widespread congener threaten the long-term persistence of the Eastern Alpine rare local endemic Knautia carinthiaca?

scientific article published on 9 September 2015

Ecological differentiation of diploid and polyploid cytotypes of Senecio carniolicus sensu lato (Asteraceae) is stronger in areas of sympatry

scientific article published on 11 December 2015

Ecological differentiation, lack of hybrids involving diploids, and asymmetric gene flow between polyploids in narrow contact zones of Senecio carniolicus (syn. Jacobaea carniolica, Asteraceae)

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Ecological segregation drives fine-scale cytotype distribution of Senecio carniolicus in the Eastern Alps.

scientific article published on January 2009

Effects of species traits on the genetic diversity of high-mountain plants: a multi-species study across the Alps and the Carpathians

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Environmental heterogeneity and phenotypic divergence: can heritable epigenetic variation aid speciation?

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Escaping to the summits: phylogeography and predicted range dynamics of Cerastium dinaricum, an endangered high mountain plant endemic to the western Balkan Peninsula

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Evidence for Glacial Refugia of the Forest Understorey Species <i>Helleborus niger</i> (Ranunculaceae) in the Southern as Well as in the Northern Limestone Alps

scientific article published on 10 May 2021

Evolution of the central Mediterranean Centaurea cineraria group (Asteraceae): Evidence for relatively recent, allopatric diversification following transoceanic seed dispersal

scientific article published on April 2011

Extensive gene flow blurs phylogeographic but not phylogenetic signal in Olea europaea L.

scientific article published on 12 July 2006

Extensive gene flow blurs species boundaries among Veronica barrelieri, V. orchidea and V. spicata (Plantaginaceae) in southeastern Europe

scientific article published on February 2011

Extensive range persistence in peripheral and interior refugia characterizes Pleistocene range dynamics in a widespread Alpine plant species (Senecio carniolicus, Asteraceae).

scientific article published on 25 January 2012

Extensive variation in chromosome number and genome size in sexual and parthenogenetic species of the jumping-bristletail genus Machilis (Archaeognatha).

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Feinverbreitung, Ökologie und Gesellschaftsanschluß reliktischer Gefäßpflanzen der Niederen Tauern östlich des Sölkpasses (Steiermark, Österreich)

Five molecular markers reveal extensive morphological homoplasy and reticulate evolution in the Malva alliance (Malvaceae).

scientific article published on 5 November 2008

Genetic consequences of climate change for northern plants

scientific article (publication date: 22 May 2012)

Genetic diversity in widespread species is not congruent with species richness in alpine plant communities

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Genetic structure of peripheral, island-like populations: a case study of Saponaria bellidifolia Sm. (Caryophyllaceae) from the Southeastern Carpathians

scientific article published on 09 February 2009

Genetic, cytological and morphological differentiation within the Balkan-Carpathian Sesleria rigida sensu Fl. Eur. (Poaceae): A taxonomically intricate tetraploid-octoploid complex

scientific article (publication date: 17 June 2013)

Genomic analyses suggest parallel ecological divergence in Heliosperma pusillum (Caryophyllaceae).

scientific article published on 07 August 2017

Giants and dwarfs: molecular phylogenies reveal multiple origins of annual spurges within Euphorbia subg. Esula

scientific article published on June 25, 2011

Heteroploid Knautia drymeia includes K. gussonei and cannot be separated into diagnosable subspecies

scientific article published on 17 July 2016

Historical divergence vs. contemporary gene flow: evolutionary history of the calcicole Ranunculus alpestris group (Ranunculaceae) in the European Alps and the Carpathians

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History or ecology? Substrate type as a major driver of spatial genetic structure in Alpine plants

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Integrating phylogenomics, phylogenetics, morphometrics, relative genome size and ecological niche modelling disentangles the diversification of Eurasian Euphorbia seguieriana s. l. (Euphorbiaceae)

scientific article published on 08 November 2018

Is the incidence of survival in interior Pleistocene refugia (nunataks) underestimated? Phylogeography of the high mountain plant (Primulaceae) in the European Alps revisited

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Is there a need for accepting paraphyletic taxa? A case study in the Sardinian endemic Cymbalaria muelleri (Plantaginaceae)

scientific article published on 6 October 2019

Leaf anatomy of two reciprocally non-monophyletic mountain plants (Heliosperma spp.): does heritable adaptation to divergent growing sites accompany the onset of speciation?

scientific article published on 7 October 2016

Long-distance plant dispersal to North Atlantic islands: colonization routes and founder effect

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Long-term isolation of European steppe outposts boosts the biome's conservation value

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

Mixed-Ploidy Species: Progress and Opportunities in Polyploid Research.

scientific article published on 17 October 2017

Molecular evidence for glacial refugia of mountain plants in the European Alps.

scientific article published in October 2005

Molecular phylogenetic analyses identify Alpine differentiation and dysploid chromosome number changes as major forces for the evolution of the European endemic Phyteuma (Campanulaceae).

scientific article published on 25 July 2013

Morphological and Geographical Evidence are Misleading with Respect to the Phylogenetic Position and Origin of the Narrow Endemic Polyploid Androsace cantabrica (Primulaceae)

scientific article published in 2008

Multiple Pleistocene refugia and Holocene range expansion of an abundant southwestern American desert plant species (Melampodium leucanthum, Asteraceae).

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Multiple auto- and allopolyploidisations marked the Pleistocene history of the widespread Eurasian steppe plant Astragalus onobrychis (Fabaceae)

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Natural selection drives parallel divergence in the mountain plant <i>Heliosperma pusillum</i> s.l

scientific article published in 2018

No evidence of intrinsic reproductive isolation between two reciprocally non-monophyletic, ecologically differentiated mountain plants at an early stage of speciation

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Origin and Diversification of South American Polyploid Sect. (Caryophyllaceae) in the Andes and Patagonia

scholarly article by Božo Frajman et al published 2018 in Frontiers in Genetics

Out of the Alps: colonization of Northern Europe by East Alpine populations of the Glacier Buttercup Ranunculus glacialis L. (Ranunculaceae).

scientific article published in December 2003

Parental ploidy strongly affects offspring fitness in heteroploid crosses among three cytotypes of autopolyploid Jacobaea carniolica (Asteraceae)

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Past climate-driven range shifts and population genetic diversity in arctic plants

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Patterns of Endemism and Comparative Phylogeography Confirm Palaeoenvironmental Evidence for Pleistocene Refugia in the Eastern Alps

scientific article (publication date: August 2003)

Patterns of cytotype distribution and genome size variation in the genus Sesleria  Scop. (Poaceae)

scientific article published in 2015

Patterns of rapid diversification in heteroploid Knautia sect. Trichera (Caprifoliaceae, Dipsacoideae), one of the most intricate taxa of the European flora

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Performance comparison of two reduced-representation based genome-wide marker-discovery strategies in a multi-taxon phylogeographic framework

scientific article published on 17 February 2021

Phylogenetic position and taxonomy of the enigmatic Orobanche krylowii (Orobanchaceae), a predominatly Asian species newly found in Albania (SE Europe)

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Phylogenetic relationships in the species-rich Irano-Turanian genus Alcea (Malvaceae)

scientific article published on April 2012

Phylogeography of western Mediterranean Cymbalaria (Plantaginaceae) reveals two independent long-distance dispersals and entails new taxonomic circumscriptions

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Pleistocene distribution range shifts were accompanied by breeding system divergence within Hornungia alpina (Brassicaceae) in the Alps

scientific article published on 18 August 2009

Polyploidisation and geographic differentiation drive diversification in a European High Mountain Plant Group (Doronicum clusii Aggregate, Asteraceae)

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Postglacial range expansion of high‐elevation plants is restricted by dispersal ability and habitat specialization

scientific article published in 2022

Quaternary range dynamics and polyploid evolution in an arid brushland plant species (Melampodium cinereum, Asteraceae).

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Range-wide phylogeography of Juniperus thurifera L., a presumptive keystone species of western Mediterranean vegetation during cold stages of the Pleistocene.

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Rare arctic-alpine plants of the European Alps have different immigration histories: the snow bed species Minuartia biflora and Ranunculus pygmaeus.

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Reciprocal Pleistocene origin and postglacial range formation of an allopolyploid and its sympatric ancestors (Androsace adfinis group, Primulaceae).

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Reciprocal transplantations reveal strong niche differentiation among ploidy-differentiated species of the Senecio carniolicus aggregate (Asteraceae) in the easternmost Alps

scientific article published on 13 August 2018

Saponaria pumila (caryophyllaceae) and the ice age in the European alps.

scientific article published in December 2002

Secondary contact after divergence in allopatry explains current lack of ecogeographical isolation in two hybridizing alpine plant species

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Several Pleistocene refugia detected in the high alpine plant Phyteuma globulariifolium sternb & hoppe (Campanulaceae) in the European Alps.

scientific article published in December 2002

Southern isolation and northern long-distance dispersal shaped the phylogeography of the widespread, but highly disjunct, European high mountain plantArtemisia eriantha(Asteraceae)

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Strong nuclear differentiation contrasts with widespread sharing of plastid DNA haplotypes across taxa in European purple saxifrages (SaxifragasectionPorphyrionsubsectionOppositifoliae)

scientific article published in 2013

Sympatric diploid and hexaploid cytotypes of Senecio carniolicus (Asteraceae) in the Eastern Alps are separated along an altitudinal gradient

scientific article published on 5 October 2007

Tales of the unexpected: phylogeography of the arctic-alpine model plant Saxifraga oppositifolia (Saxifragaceae) revisited

scientific article published on 19 July 2012

Taxonomy and nomenclature of the polymorphic European high mountain species Androsace vitaliana (L.) Lapeyr. (Primulaceae)

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Testing the efficiency of nested barriers to dispersal in the Mediterranean high mountain plant Edraianthus graminifolius (Campanulaceae).

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The Vascular Plants of Kálamos (Ionian Islands, Greece): a Catalogue

scientific article published in 2014

The extreme disjunction between Beringia and Europe in Ranunculus glacialis s. l. (Ranunculaceae) does not coincide with the deepest genetic split - a story of the importance of temperate mountain ranges in arctic-alpine phylogeography

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The regional species richness and genetic diversity of Arctic vegetation reflect both past glaciations and current climate

scientific article published in 2016

Towards a better understanding of polyploid Sorbus (Rosaceae) from Bosnia and Herzegovina (Balkan Peninsula), including description of a novel, tetraploid apomictic species

scientific article published on 22 May 2015

Traces of ancient range shifts in a mountain plant group (Androsace halleri complex, Primulaceae).

scientific article published in September 2007

Trans-Atlantic dispersal and large-scale lack of genetic structure in the circumpolar, arctic-alpine sedge Carex bigelowii s. l. (Cyperaceae).

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Underestimated diversity in one of the world’s best studied mountain ranges: The polyploid complex of Senecio carniolicus (Asteraceae) contains four species in the European Alps

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Vicariance and Dispersal in the Alpine Perennial Bupleurum stellatum L. (Apiaceae)

scientific article (publication date: August 2005)