Against the odds: Complete outcrossing in a monoecious clonal seagrass Posidonia australis (Posidoniaceae)

Annals of Botany

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1185-1196

  Sinclair, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Gecan, Ilena ^a   Krauss, Siegfried L ^a,b   Kendrick, Gary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Botanic Gardens and Park Authority   (Australia)

Author keywords

clonal seagrass; hydrophily; mating system; monoecious; outcrossing rate; paternity assignment; pollen dispersal; Posidonia australis; Posidoniaceae; water movement

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; FLOWERING; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; INBREEDING; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; OUTCROSSING; POLLEN; POLLINATION; SEAGRASS; WATER COLUMN;

AUSTRALIA; COCKBURN SOUND; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ALISMATALES; AUSTRALIA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INBREEDING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION;

ALISMATIDAE; GENETIC VARIATION; INBREEDING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84901478056     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcu048     Document Type: Article

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