Invasion of diverse habitats by few Japanese knotweed genotypes is correlated with epigenetic differentiation

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1016-1025

  Richards, Christina L ^a   Schrey, Aaron W ^a   Pigliucci, Massimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

AFLP; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Invasive species; Japanese knotweed

Indexed keywords

POLYGONUM CUSPIDATUM;

EID: 84931748998     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01824.x     Document Type: Article

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