Refugia and post-glacial migration of Nigritella miniata (Orchidaceae): evidence from restriction site-associated DNA sequencing, microsatellite markers, and ecological niche modelling
Nigritella miniata is an alpine orchid species disjunctly endemic to the Eastern Alps and the Southeastern Carpathians. It is thought to have arisen only once through a hybridisation event between now extinct ancestors. Questions of interest are whether N. miniata survived in few or many isolated refugia in the Eastern Alps during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), and their relationship with the pop