Which moss is which? Identification of the threatened moss Orthodontium gracile using molecular and morphological techniques

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1033-1042

  Rowntree, J K ^a,b   Cowan, R S ^a   Leggett, M ^a   Ramsay, M M ^a   Fay, M F ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AFLP; Barcoding; Ex situ conservation; Stereid cells; Threatened bryophytes; trnL F intron

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MOSS; REINTRODUCTION; TAXONOMY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; ORTHODONTIUM; ORTHODONTIUM GRACILE; ORTHODONTIUM LINEARE;

EID: 77952876316     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-009-9948-3     Document Type: Article

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