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What Is the Meaning of Extreme Phylogenetic Diversity? The Case of Phylogenetic Relict Species

  • Grandcolas P
  • Trewick S
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-22461-9_6
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A relict is a species that remains from a group largely extinct. It can be identified according both to a phylogenetic analysis and to a fossil record of extinction. Conserving a relict species will amount to conserve the unique representative of a particular...

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Grandcolas, P., & Trewick, S. A. (2016). What Is the Meaning of Extreme Phylogenetic Diversity? The Case of Phylogenetic Relict Species (pp. 99–115). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22461-9_6

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