Reconstructing the origins and dispersal of the Polynesian bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria)

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 893-900

  Clarke, Andrew C ^a   Burtenshaw, Michael K ^b   McLenachan, Patricia A ^a   Erickson, David L ^c   Penny, David ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b Open Polytechnic of New Zealand   (New Zealand)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottle gourd; Crop domestication; Human migration; ISSR; Lagenaria siceraria; Polynesia; Scar markers

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LAGENARIA SICERARIA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PLANT GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SWEET POTATO; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POLYNESIA; POPULATION GENETICS; SQUASH;

IPOMOEA BATATAS; LAGENARIA SICERARIA;

DNA;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLASTS; CUCURBITA; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYNESIA;

EID: 33646570527     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msj092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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