Chloroplast DNA Phylogeography Reveals Repeated Range Expansion in a Widespread Aquatic Herb Hippuris vulgaris in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and Adjacent Areas

• Jin-Ming Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Ming Chen, Zhi-Yuan Du

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Zhi-Yuan Du ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-Ming Chen, Zhi-Yuan Du

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Shan-Shan Sun,

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Robert Wahiti Gituru,

  Affiliation Botany Department, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Qing-Feng Wang

  * E-mail: qfwang@wbgcas.cn

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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