Clone identification and clonal structure of the European aspen (Populus tremula)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2851-2860

  Suvanto, Leena I ^a,b   Latva Karjanmaa, Tarja B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Asexual reproduction; Kinship coefficient; Microsatellites; Moran's I; Morphotype; Spatial genetic structure

Indexed keywords

POPULUS TREMULA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PRIMER DNA;

AGE; ARTICLE; ASPEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FINLAND; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; TREE;

AGE FACTORS; DNA PRIMERS; FINLAND; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HETEROZYGOTE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POPULUS; REPRODUCTION; TREES;

EID: 24944537983     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02634.x     Document Type: Article

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