Naturalized plants have smaller genomes than their non-invading relatives: A flow cytometric analysis of the Czech alien flora

Preslia

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 81-96

  Kubešová, Magdalena ^a,b   Moravcová, Lenka ^a   Suda, Jan ^a,b   Jarošík, Vojtěch ^a,b   Pyšek, Petr ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Alien plants; C value; Confamilials; Congeners; Flow cytometry; Genome size; Invasive species; Large genome constraint hypothesis; Nuclear DNA content; Plant invasions

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENOME; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NATURALIZATION;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

EID: 77958158220     PISSN: 00327786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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