Conservation of rare species with island-like distributions: A case study of Lasthenia conjugens (Asteraceae) using population genetic structure and the distribution of rare markers

Plant Species Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 97-110

  Ramp Neale, Jennifer M ^a   Ranker, Tom A ^a,c,d   Collinge, Sharon K ^a,b  

^a Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation genetics; Endangered species; Genetic diversity; Intersimple sequence repeats; Vernal pools

Indexed keywords

ASTERACEAE; LASTHENIA CONJUGENS;

EID: 67349206534     PISSN: 0913557X     EISSN: 14421984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-1984.2008.00211.x     Document Type: Article

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