Extensive Pollen Flow but Few Pollen Donors and High Reproductive Variance in an Extremely Fragmented Landscape

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Albaladejo, Rafael G ^a   Guzmán, Beatriz ^a   González Martínez, Santiago C ^b   Aparicio, Abelardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INBREEDING; LANDSCAPE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PISTACIA LENTISCUS; PLANT REPRODUCTION; POLLEN; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEED DISPERSAL;

FERNS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLLEN; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTION; WIND;

PISTACIA LENTISCUS;

EID: 84869061539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049012     Document Type: Article

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