The influence of environment and life-history traits on the distribution of genes and individuals: A comparative study of 11 rainforest trees

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1422-1438

  Rossetto, M ^a   Crayn, D ^a,b   Ford, A ^c   Mellick, R ^a   Sommerville, K ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS AND DOMAIN TRUST   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian Wet Tropics; Dispersal; Elaeocarpus; Nuclear DNA; Plant assemblages; Upland refugia

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PLANT DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELAEOCARPACEAE; ENVIRONMENT; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ALLELES; AUSTRALIA; DNA, PLANT; ELAEOCARPACEAE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

ELAEOCARPUS;

EID: 62849118513     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04111.x     Document Type: Article

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