The base number of 'loxoscaphoid' Asplenium species and its implication for cytoevolution in Aspleniaceae

Annals of Botany

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 157-171

  Bellefroid, Elke ^a   Rambe, S Khadijah ^b   Leroux, Olivier ^a   Viane, Ronald L L ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Aspleniaceae; Asplenium centrafricanum; Asplenium loxoscaphoides; Asplenium rutifolium; Asplenium sertularioides; Asplenium theciferum; Chromosome base number; Cytoevolution; Cytology; Dysploidy; Polyploidization

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; CYTOLOGY; FERN; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION KEY; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYPLOIDY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FERN; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLOIDY;

CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; EVOLUTION; FERNS; PHYLOGENY; PLOIDIES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION;

ASPLENIACEAE; ASPLENIUM; ASPLENIUM LOXOSCAPHOIDES; ASPLENIUM THECIFERUM;

EID: 77956375915     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcq095     Document Type: Article

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