Genetic and clonal diversity of the endemic ant-plant Humboldtia brunonis (Fabaceae) in the Western Ghats of India

Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 267-279

  Dev, Suma A ^a   Shenoy, Megha ^a   Borges, Renee M ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Caesalpinioideae; Clonality; Detarieae; Inter simple sequence repeats; Myrmecophyte; Spatial genetic structure

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLONE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; LEGUME; MYRMECOPHYTE; POLYMORPHISM; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANT; ARTICLE; CLONAL VARIATION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INDIA; INTER SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; LEGUME; NONHUMAN; POLLEN; POLLINATION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; FABACEAE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; INDIA; PHYLOGENY;

INDIA; WESTERN GHATS;

APOIDEA; BRAUNSAPIS PUANGENSIS; CAESALPINIOIDEAE; DETARIEAE; FABACEAE; FORMICIDAE; HUMBOLDTIA BRUNONIS; INVERTEBRATA; RODENTIA;

EID: 77954358375     PISSN: 02505991     EISSN: 02505991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12038-010-0031-5     Document Type: Article

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