Nuclear and chloroplast DNA suggest a complex single origin for the threatened allopolyploid Solidago houghtonii (Asteraceae) involving reticulate evolution and introgression

Systematic Botany

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 209-226

  Laureto, Pamela J ^a,b   Barkman, Todd J ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Orthopaedic Associates of Grand Rapids   (United States)

Author keywords

cpDNA; Introgression; nrDNA; Reticulate evolution; Solidago houghtonii

Indexed keywords

ASTERACEAE; OLIGONEURON HOUGHTONII; SOLIDAGO; SOLIDAGO GIGANTEA;

EID: 79956157470     PISSN: 03636445     EISSN: 15482324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1600/036364411X553289     Document Type: Article

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