Unravelling genetics at the top: Mountain islands or isolated belts?

Annals of Botany

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1221-1232

  García Fernández, Alfredo ^a,b   Segarra Moragues, Jose Gabriel ^c   Widmer, Alex ^d   Escudero, Adrian ^a   Iriondo, José María ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT BOTÀNIC DE BARCELONA IBB CSIC ICUB   (Spain)

^c CDIS UV Generalitat Valenciana)   (Spain)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

altitudinal range; Caryophyllaceae; Gene flow; genetic variation; glacial refuge; local adaptation; mountain plant; Silene ciliata

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DICOTYLEDON; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; INBREEDING; ISLAND; ISOLATED POPULATION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REFUGE;

ADAPTATION; ALTITUDE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; INBREEDING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; SILENE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; INBREEDING; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SILENE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

CARYOPHYLLACEAE; SILENE;

EID: 84868020793     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcs195     Document Type: Article

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