Genetic variation in wild and cultivated populations of the haploid- diploid red alga Gracilaria chilensis: How farming practices favor asexual reproduction and heterozygosity

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1500-1519

  Guillemin, Marie Laure ^a,b,c,e   Faugeron, Sylvain ^b,c,d   Destombe, Christophe ^a,b,c   Viard, Frederique ^a,b,c   Correa, Juan A ^b,c,d   Valero, Myriam ^a,b,c  

^a STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE ROSCOFF   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CNRS UPMC   (France)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^e UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Clonal propagation; Domestication; Heterosis; Life history traits; Microsatellites; Mixed mating system; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CLONE; DOMESTICATION; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION GENETICS; RED ALGA; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEAWEED; WILD POPULATION;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

ALGAE; GRACILARIA; GRACILARIA CHILENSIS; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 44449090605     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00373.x     Document Type: Article

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