Distinctiveness, speciation and demographic history of the rare endemic conifer Juniperus erectopatens in the eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

The unique geography and climate of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau (QTP) have impacted the formation of species in this area, with a large number of relatively young endemic species associated with the uplift of the QTP and Quaternary climatic changes. In our study, we used two chloroplast DNA fragments and seven nuclear genes to investigate the population genetic structure, species divergence and demographic history of two QTP endemic species,...