The promiscuous and the chaste: Frequent allopolyploid speciation and its genomic consequences in American daisies (Melampodium sect. Melampodium; Asteraceae)

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 211-228

  Weiss Schneeweiss, Hanna ^a   Blöch, Cordula ^a   Turner, Barbara ^a   Villaseñor, José L ^b   Stuessy, Tod F ^a   Schneeweiss, Gerald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Allopolyploidy; Chromosome evolution; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Genome size; Phylogeny; RDNA

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

CHROMOSOME; DICOTYLEDON; EUKARYOTE; FLUORESCENCE; GENOME; HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY;

ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PLANT GENOME; POLYPLOIDY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ASTERACEAE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME, PLANT; POLYPLOIDY;

ASTERACEAE; EUKARYOTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MELAMPODIUM; TETRA;

EID: 84855258710     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01424.x     Document Type: Article

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