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Evolution in the Genus Pæonia

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THE genus Pæonia has three main centres of distribution and diversity: in the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins, in the Far East from Tibet to Japan, and in North America. From my own and previous chromosome studies1,2,3, I find that in these separate regions it has undergone three different methods of species formation, all the time working with the same haploid set of five chromosomes.

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BARBER, H. Evolution in the Genus Pæonia. Nature 148, 227–228 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148227b0

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