Taxonomic delimitation and drivers of speciation in the Ibero-North African Carex sect. Phacocystis river-shore group (Cyperaceae)

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 98, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1855-1867

  Jiménez Mejías, Pedro ^a   Escudero, Marcial ^a,b   Guerra Cárdenas, Samuel ^a   Lye, Kåre A ^c   Luceño, Modesto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b MORTON ARBORETUM   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

AFLP; Cytogenetics; Guadalquivir; Haplotypes; Helophyte; High density blocking effect; Isolation by distance; Rpl32 trnLUAG; Strait of Gibraltar; ycf6 psbM

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

CHROMOSOME; CYTOGENETICS; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MORPHOLOGY; NEW RECORD; PERENNIAL PLANT; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RHIZOME; TAXONOMY; VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION;

AFRICA; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CYPERACEAE; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLASTID; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CAREX PLANT; DNA, PLANT; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLASTIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANDALUCIA; GUADALQUIVIR RIVER; SPAIN; STRAIT OF GEORGIA;

CAREX; CAREX ACUTA; CAREX ELATA; CYPERACEAE;

EID: 84858386923     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1100120     Document Type: Article

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