Nunatak survival of the high Alpine plant Eritrichium nanum (L.) Gaudin in the central Alps during the ice ages

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2027-2036

  Stehlik, I ^a   Blattner, F R ^b   Holderegger, R ^c   Bachmann, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cpDNA; Genetic hotspot areas; Glacial survival; Nunataks; PCR RFLP; Sequence analysis

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ANGIOSPERMS; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; EUROPE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; ICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ERITRICHIUM; ERITRICHIUM NANUM;

EID: 0036790584     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2002.01595.x     Document Type: Article

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