Determining the affinities of salt marsh fucoids using microsatellite markers: Evidence of hybridization and introgression between two species of Fucus (Phaeophyta) in a Maine estuary

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1013-1027

  Wallace, Aaron L ^a   Klein, Anita S ^a   Mathieson, Arthur C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecad; Estuary; F. cottonii; F. spiralis; F. vesiculosus; F. vesiculosus ecad volubilis; Fucus; Hybridization; Introgression; Microsatellites; Muscoides like Fucus

Indexed keywords

BROWN ALGA; GENETIC MARKER; HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; SALTMARSH;

BRAVE BOAT HARBOR; MAINE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ALGAE; EUKARYOTA; FUCUS; FUCUS SPIRALIS; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; PHAEOPHYCEAE; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 11144252288     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2004.04085.x     Document Type: Article

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