Interspecific gene flow and maintenance of species integrity in oaks

Annals of Forest Research

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 5-18

  Gailing, Oliver ^a   Curtu, Alexandru Lucian ^b  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV   (Romania)

Author keywords

Ecological speciation; Hybridization; Outlier loci; Quercus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905085024     PISSN: 18448135     EISSN: 20652445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15287/afr.2014.171     Document Type: Review

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