Apomixis and reticulate evolution in the Asplenium monanthes fern complex

Annals of Botany

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1515-1529

  Dyer, Robert J ^a,b   Savolainen, Vincent ^b,c   Schneider, Harald ^a,d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

apogamy; Apomixis; asexual reproduction; Asplenium monanthes; diplospory; hybridization; polyploidy; reticulate evolution

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

APOMIXIS; BIOMARKER; FERN; GAMETOPHYTE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PLASTID; POLYPLOIDY; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SPECIES COMPLEX; SPOROPHYTE; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

APOMIXIS; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FERN; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTID; PLOIDY; POLYPLOIDY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

APOMIXIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, PLANT; FERNS; GENETIC MARKERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLASTIDS; PLOIDIES; POLYPLOIDY; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ASPLENIUM MONANTHES; ASPLENIUM PALMERI; EMBRYOPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; MONANTHES;

EID: 84870156611     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcs202     Document Type: Article

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