Low but structured chloroplast diversity in Atherosperma moschatum (Atherospermataceae) suggests bottlenecks in response to the Pleistocene glacials

Annals of Botany

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1247-1256

  Worth, James R P ^a   Marthick, James R ^b   Jordan, Gregory J ^a   Vaillancourt, René E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

A. moschatum subsp. integrifolium; Atherosperma moschatum; Atherospermataceae; bottleneck; comparative phylogeography; cool temperate rainforest; glacial refugia; Nothofagus cunninghamii; Pleistocene glacials; south eastern Australia; Tasmannia lanceolata

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; PLANT DNA;

ANCESTRY; CHLOROPLAST; COEXISTENCE; COLD TOLERANCE; EVERGREEN TREE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; RAINFOREST; RANGE EXPANSION; REFUGIUM; SURVIVAL;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

ANGIOSPERMS; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

AUSTRALIA;

ATHEROSPERMA MOSCHATUM; ATHEROSPERMATACEAE; NOTHOFAGUS CUNNINGHAMII; TASMANNIA LANCEOLATA;

EID: 80054881560     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcr220     Document Type: Article

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