Genome size of Adriatic seagrasses

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-25

  Koce, Jasna Dolenc ^a   Vilhar, Barbara ^a   Bohanec, Borut ^a   Dermastia, Marina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Alismatidae; C value; DNA image cytometry; Genome size; Seagrasses

Indexed keywords

GENOME;

ALISMATIDAE; CYMODOCEA NODOSA; HALOPHILA; PISUM SATIVUM; POSIDONIA OCEANICA; SATIVUM; ZOSTERA MARINA; ZOSTERA NOLTII;

EID: 0042740666     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3770(03)00072-X     Document Type: Article

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