Low genetic diversity and contrasting patterns of differentiation in the two monotypic genera Halacsya and Paramoltkia (Boraginaceae) endemic to the Balkan serpentines

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 5-14

  Coppi, Andrea ^a   Cecchi, Lorenzo ^a   Mengoni, Alessio ^a   Pustahija, Fatima ^b   Tomović, Gordana ^c   Selvi, Federico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

AFLP fingerprinting; Balkan flora; Genetic diversity; Monotypic genera; Population differentiation; Serpentine endemics

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FLORA; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HETEROZYGOSITY; METAPOPULATION; SERPENTINE;

BALKAN; TURKMENISTAN;

BORAGINACEAE;

EID: 84891828964     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2013.11.002     Document Type: Article

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