Phylogeographic patterns, genetic affinities and morphological differentiation between Epipactis helleborine and related lineages in a Mediterranean glacial refugium

Annals of Botany

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 427-436

  Tranchida Lombardo, Valentina ^a,b   Cafasso, Donata ^b   Cristaudo, Antonia ^a   Cozzolino, Salvatore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

chloroplast DNA; Epipactis; genetic variation; mating systems; orchids; plastid haplotype network; plastid spacer; ribosomal spacer

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A CARBOXYLASE; CHLOROPLAST DNA; RBCL PROTEIN, PLASTID; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AUTOGAMY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EPIPHYTE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; HERB; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLASTID; QUATERNARY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TAXONOMY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; ITALY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; ORCHIDACEAE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ACETYL-COA CARBOXYLASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; ITALY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORCHIDACEAE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLANT PROTEINS; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EPIPACTIS; EPIPACTIS HELLEBORINE; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 79952134264     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcq256     Document Type: Article

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