Does water facilitate gene flow in spore-producing plants? Insights from the fine-scale genetic structure of the aquatic moss Rhynchostegium riparioides (Brachytheciaceae)

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 108, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-6

  Hutsemekers V ^a   Hardy, O J ^b   Vanderpoorten, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bryophyte; Gene flow; Hydrochory; Isolation by distance; Spatial genetic structure

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HYDROCHORY; METAPOPULATION; MOSS; PARTITIONING; RIVER BASIN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPORULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRACHYTHECIACEAE; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; PLATYHYPNIDIUM RIPAROIDES;

EID: 84876845418     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquabot.2013.02.001     Document Type: Article

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