Tales of the unexpected: Phylogeography of the arctic-alpine model plant Saxifraga oppositifolia (Saxifragaceae) revisited

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 4618-4630

  Winkler, Manuela ^a   Tribsch, Andreas ^b   Schneeweiss, Gerald M ^a   Brodbeck, Sabine ^c   Gugerli, Felix ^c   Holderegger, Rolf ^c   Abbott, Richard J ^d   Schãnswetter, Peter ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

AFLPs; arctic alpine plants; geographic diffusion model; phylogeography; plastid sequences; range dynamics; Saxifraga oppositifolia

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; PLANT DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SAXIFRAGACEAE;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; ARCTIC REGIONS; ASIA, CENTRAL; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, PLANT; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EUROPE; HAPLOTYPES; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SAXIFRAGACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

SAXIFRAGA; SAXIFRAGA OPPOSITIFOLIA; SAXIFRAGACEAE;

EID: 84866240211     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05705.x     Document Type: Article

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