Genetic population structure, fitness variation and the importance of population history in remnant populations of the endangered plant Silene chlorantha (Willd.) Ehrh. (Caryophyllaceae)

Plant Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 667-777

  Lauterbach, D ^a   Ristow, M ^b   Gemeinholzer, B ^a,c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

AFLP; Fitness; Population genetic structure; Population history

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DICOTYLEDON; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FITNESS; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; INBREEDING; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GERMANY; POLLINATION; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SILENE;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GERMANY; POLLINATION; SILENE;

GERMANY;

CARYOPHYLLACEAE; SILENE; SILENE CHLORANTHA;

EID: 79958835996     PISSN: 14358603     EISSN: 14388677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.2010.00418.x     Document Type: Article

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