Galápagos' Opuntia (prickly pear) cacti: Extensive morphological diversity, low genetic variability

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 451-461

  Helsen, Philippe ^a   Browne, Robert A ^b   Anderson, David J ^b   Verdyck, Peter ^a   Van Dongen, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Gene flow; Island biogeography; ITS; Network; PhyC; Phylogenetics; trnT trnL

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TAXONOMY;

CACTACEAE; OPUNTIA; OPUNTIA CACTI;

EID: 58549095647     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01141.x     Document Type: Article

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