History and evolution of alpine plants endemic to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: Aconitum gymnandrum (Ranunculaceae)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 709-721

  Wang, Liuyang ^a,b   Abbott, Richard J ^c   Zheng, Wei ^b   Chen, Ping ^b   Wang, Yujin ^a   Liu, Jianquan ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alpine plants; Coalescent tests; Glacial refugia; Hybridization; Pleistocene divergence; Qinghai Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ACONITUM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHINA; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ACONITUM; CHINA; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACONITUM; ACONITUM GYMNANDRUM; RANUNCULACEAE;

EID: 58849141629     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.04055.x     Document Type: Article

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