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Pacific Bananas: Complex Origins, Multiple Dispersals?

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2008

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Kennedy, Jean

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University of Hawaii Press

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This paper reviews recent genetic evidence for the origins of the traditional cultivated bananas of the Pacific, and shows that they are unexpectedly complex. Current assumption of their prevailing west-to-east spread from Southeast Asia into the Pacific

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Keywords: archaeological evidence; colonization; crop plant; dispersal; genetic variation; paleobotany; phylogeny; species diversity; taxonomy; Asia; Eurasia; Malay Archipelago; New Guinea; Pacific islands; Pacific Ocean; Philippines; Polynesia; Southeast Asia; Mus And genetics; Banana domestication; Banana phytoliths; Fe'i bananas; Indo-Pacific migration and colonization; New Guinea archaeobotany; Pacific plantains; Taxonomy

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/37683

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ANU Research Publications

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Asian Perspectives

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