An ancient eelgrass clone in the Baltic

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 183, Issue , 1999, Pages 301-304

  Reusch, Thorsten B H ^a,c   Boström, Christoffer ^b   Stam, Wytze T ^a   Olsen, Jeanine L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Clonal reproduction; Eelgrass; Genet; Microsatellites; Ramet; Zostera marina

Indexed keywords

BALTIC SEA; CLONED GENE; FISH GENETICS; GENETIC DIVERSITY; GENOTYPE; GROWTH REGULATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; MICROSATELLITE LOCUS; POLYMORPHIC MICROSATELLITE;

CLONE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE;

ALAND ISLANDS; BALTIC SEA; FINLAND;

ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 0033529348     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps183301     Document Type: Article

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