The colonization history of Juniperus brevifolia (Cupressaceae) in the Azores islands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Rumeu, Beatriz ^a   Caujapé Castells, Juli ^b   Blanco Pastor, José Luis ^d   Jaén Molina, Ruth ^b   Nogales, Manuel ^a   Elias, Rui B ^c   Vargas, Pablo ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE PRODUCTOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b Departamento de Biodiversidad Molecular y Banco de ADN de la Flora Canaria   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HAPLOTYPE; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS BREVIFOLIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLANT COLONIZATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT EVOLUTION; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; PLASTID GENOME; POPULATION DISPERSAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INTRODUCTION; SPECIES TRANSLOCATION; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLASTID; STATISTICS; TIME;

CUPRESSACEAE; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS BREVIFOLIA;

PLANT DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AZORES; DNA, PLANT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HAPLOTYPES; JUNIPERUS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLASTIDS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 81155131380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027697     Document Type: Article

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