Three-gene identity coefficients demonstrate that clonal reproduction promotes inbreeding and spatial relatedness in yellow-cedar, Callitropsis nootkatensis

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2570-2579

  Thompson, Stacey Lee ^a   Bérubé, Yanik ^b   Bruneau, Anne ^c   Ritland, Kermit ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asexuality; Clonal reproduction; Gene identity; Genetic structure; Three way relationship estimators

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

CLONAL GROWTH; CONIFEROUS TREE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; INBREEDING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RELATEDNESS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUPRESSACEAE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INBREEDING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUPRESSACEAE; GENES, PLANT; GENOTYPE; INBREEDING; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS;

CALLITROPSIS NOOTKATENSIS;

EID: 53149133556     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00470.x     Document Type: Article

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