Sex after all: High levels of diversity detected in the arctic clonal plant Saxifraga cernua using RAPD markers

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1701-1708

  Gabrielsen, T M ^a   Brochmann, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic; Clonal plants; Genetic diversity; RAPDs; Saxifraga cernua

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF MOLECULAR VARIANCE; CLONAL VARIATION; CLONE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC DIVERSITY; GENETIC MARKER; PHENOTYPE; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

SAXIFRAGA CERNUA;

EID: 0031742399     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.1998.00503.x     Document Type: Article

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