Genetic relationships and evolution in Cucurbita pepo (pumpkin, squash, gourd) as revealed by simple sequence repeat polymorphisms

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 875-891

  Gong, Li ^a,b   Paris, Harry S ^c   Nee, Michael H ^d   Stift, Gertraud ^a   Pachner, Martin ^a   Vollmann, Johann ^a   Lelley, Tamas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^d INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATIC BOTANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCES; GENES;

CUCURBITA PEPO; FRUIT CONSUMPTION; FRUIT SHAPE; GENETIC DISTANCES; GENETIC RELATIONSHIPS; LINKAGE GROUPS; PRINCIPAL COORDINATE ANALYSIS; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEATS;

FRUITS;

CITRULLUS COLOCYNTHIS; CUCURBITA; CUCURBITA PEPO; PEPO;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; FRUIT; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SQUASH;

CUCURBITA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRUIT; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84862290614     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-011-1752-z     Document Type: Article

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