Fecundity and offspring ploidy in matings among diploid, triploid and tetraploid Chamerion angustifolium (Onagraceae): Consequences for tetraploid establishment

Heredity

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 573-582

  Burton, Tracy L ^a   Husband, Brian C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Fitness; Flow cytometry; Mating relationships; Polyloid evolution; Triploids

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FECUNDITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; POLYPLOIDY;

CHAMERION ANGUSTIFOLIUM; EMBRYOPHYTA; ONAGRACEAE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS BREEDING; DIPLOIDY; FERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; GERMINATION; ONAGRACEAE; PLANT SEED; POLYPLOIDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; DIPLOIDY; FERTILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GERMINATION; ONAGRACEAE; POLYPLOIDY; SEEDS;

EID: 0035544135     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2001.00955.x     Document Type: Article

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