Long-distance dispersal vs vicariance: The origin and genetic diversity of alpine plants in the Spanish Sierra Nevada

New Phytologist

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 169-184

  Kropf, Matthias ^a   Comes, Hans Peter ^b   Kadereit, Joachim W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Genetic diversity; Gentiana alpina; Kernera saxatilis; Long distance dispersal; Papaver alpinum; Sierra Nevada; Silene rupestris; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ANALYTICAL METHOD; DISPERSAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; MUTATION; PLANT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VICARIANCE;

ARTICLE; BRASSICACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENTIAN; GEOGRAPHY; PAPAVER; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SILENE; SPAIN;

BRASSICACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; GENTIANA; GEOGRAPHY; PAPAVER; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SILENE; SPAIN;

ANDALUCIA; BETIC CORDILLERA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SIERRA NEVADA [BETIC CORDILLERA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ATOCION RUPESTRIS; GENTIANA; GENTIANA ALPINA; KERNERA SAXATILIS; PAPAVER; PAPAVER ALPINUM; SILENE;

EID: 33747603883     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01795.x     Document Type: Article

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