Pollen viability and natural hybridization of Central European species of Cirsium

Preslia

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 391-422

  Bureš, Petr ^a   Šmarda, Petr ^a   Rotreklová, Olga ^a   Oberreiter, Michal ^a   Burešová, Michaela ^a   Konečný, Jiří ^a   Knoll, Aleš ^b   Fajmon, Karel ^a   Šmerda, Jakub ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

AFLP; Genetic distance; Gynodioecy; Homoploid hybrids; Inbreeding depression; Introgression; Postzygotic barrier; Prezygotic barrier; Reinforcement; Reproductive isolation; Species promiscuity; Wallace effect

Indexed keywords

GYNODIOECY; HERMAPHRODITE; HYBRIDIZATION; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; INTROGRESSION; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PALYNOLOGY; PERENNIAL PLANT; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SYMPATRY; VIABILITY;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

CIRSIUM;

EID: 77958457971     PISSN: 00327786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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