Cytotype coexistence leads to triploid hybrid production in a diploid-tetraploid contact zone of Chamerion angustifolium (Onagraceae)

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 962-970

  Sabara, Holly A ^a   Kron, Paul ^a   Husband, Brian C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chamerion angustifolium; Fireweed; Hybrid mating; Onagraceae; Polyploidy; Reproductive isolation; Spatial segregation; Triploid

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; COEXISTENCE; CONTACT ZONE; DICOTYLEDON; GENETIC VARIATION; HYBRID; MATING BEHAVIOR; POLYPLOIDY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION;

ARTICLE; CHAMERION ANGUSTIFOLIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HYBRID MATING; HYBRIDIZATION; KOCHIA SCOPARIA; ONAGRACEAE; PLOIDY; POLYPLOIDY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SPATIAL SEGREGATION; TRIPLOIDY;

CHAMERION ANGUSTIFOLIUM; FIREWEED; HYBRID MATING; ONAGRACEAE; POLYPLOIDY; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SPATIAL SEGREGATION; TRIPLOID;

GENETIC VARIATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; ONAGRACEAE; PLOIDIES;

EID: 84877272662     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1200583     Document Type: Article

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