Enhancing the survival and expansion potential of a founder population through clonality

New Phytologist

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 868-878

  Van Der Merwe, M ^a   Spain, C S ^b   Rossetto, M ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS AND DOMAIN TRUST   (Australia)

^b Matrixplus Consulting   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clonality; Founder effect; Marginal population; Multi locus genotypes; Somatic mutation

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

CLONE; COLONIZATION; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; RECOMBINATION; REFUGIUM; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; ECOSYSTEM; ERYTHROXYLACEAE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FLOW; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MUTATION; PLANT GENE; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

ECOSYSTEM; ERYTHROXYLACEAE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FLOW; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL;

ERYTHROXYLUM;

EID: 77958548693     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03396.x     Document Type: Article

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