Ecological factors influencing tetraploid establishment in snow buttercups (Ranunculus adoneus, Ranunculaceae): Minority cytotype exclusion and barriers to triploid formation

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1827-1835

  Baack, Eric J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow cytometry; Hybridization; Pollination; Polyploid speciation; Ranunculus; Reproductive isolation

Indexed keywords

POLLINATION; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; RANUNCULACEAE; RANUNCULUS; RANUNCULUS ADONEUS; RANUNCULUS NIVALIS;

EID: 27544458580     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: 00029122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.92.11.1827     Document Type: Article

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