Why are there so few species of ferns?

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 402-403

  Ranker, Tom A ^a   Sundue, Michael A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep hybridization; Ferns; Gene flow; Speciation

Indexed keywords

FILICOPHYTA;

CLASSIFICATION; FERN; HYBRIDIZATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

FERNS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84937518125     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.05.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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