European phylogeography of the epiphytic lichen fungus Lobaria pulmonaria and its green algal symbiont

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 5827-5844

  Widmer, Ivo ^a   Dal Grande, Francesco ^a,e   Excoffier, Laurent ^b,c   Holderegger, Rolf ^a   Keller, Christine ^a   Mikryukov, Vladimir S ^d   Scheidegger, Christoph ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ANIMAL ECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

algal symbiont; biogeography; centres of genetic differentiation; centroid method; comparative phylogeography; Dictyochloropsis reticulata; fungal symbiont; geographically restricted alleles; glacial refugia; Lobaria pulmonaria; microsatellite; test of congruence

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BALKAN PENINSULA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; ITALY; LICHEN (ORGANISM); MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ALLELES; ASCOMYCOTA; BALKAN PENINSULA; CHLOROPHYTA; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIATION; ITALY; LICHENS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; DICTYOCHLOROPSIS RETICULATA; FUNGI; LOBARIA PULMONARIA; PULMONARIA;

EID: 84870234953     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12051     Document Type: Article

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