Seed banks cause elevated generation times and effective population sizes of Arabidopsis thaliana in northern Europe

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2798-2811

  Lundemo, Sverre ^a   Falahati Anbaran, Mohsen ^a   StenØien, Hans K ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Annual; Genetic drift; Inbreeding; Isolation by distance; SNP; Structure

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GERMINATION; NORWAY; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GERMINATION; NORWAY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEEDS;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 67649854463     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04236.x     Document Type: Article

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