The maintenance of disparate levels of clonality, genetic diversity and genetic differentiation in disjunct subspecies of the rare Banksia ionthocarpa

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 4217-4227

  Millar, M A ^a   Byrne, M ^a   Coates, D J ^a  

^a Crop Variety Testing Group   (Australia)

Author keywords

Banksia ionthocarpa; clonal patch size; clonality; conservation genetics; genotypic diversity; marginal environment; rarity

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; BANKSIA IONTHOCARPA; CLASSIFICATION; CLONAL PATCH SIZE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPIC DIVERSITY; HETEROZYGOTE; MARGINAL ENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PROTEACEAE; RARITY;

BANKSIA IONTHOCARPA; CLONAL PATCH SIZE; CLONALITY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; GENOTYPIC DIVERSITY; MARGINAL ENVIRONMENT; RARITY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, PLANT; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BANKSIA;

EID: 77957245773     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04817.x     Document Type: Article

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