Reticulate evolution and incomplete lineage sorting among the ponderosa pines

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 498-511

  Willyard, Ann ^a,b,c   Cronn, Richard ^d   Liston, Aaron ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

^c HENDRIX COLLEGE   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybridization; LEA; Low copy nuclear loci; Pine; Pinus; Reticulate evolution; trnG; WD 40

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PONDEROSA PINE; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PINUS PONDEROSA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

PINUS COULTERI; PINUS JEFFREYI; PINUS WASHOENSIS;

EID: 67349144734     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.02.011     Document Type: Article

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