Genetic Evidence for Reproductive Isolation Among Sympatric Epichloë Endophytes as Inferred from Newly Developed Microsatellite Markers

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 51-60

  Schirrmann, Melanie K ^a   Zoller, Stefan ^a   Fior, Simone ^a   Leuchtmann, Adrian ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Endophytes; Microsatellites; Population structure; Reproductive isolation; Sympatry

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCOTA; CLAVICIPITACEAE; DACTYLIS GLOMERATA; FUNGI; HOLCUS LANATUS; POA NEMORALIS;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DACTYLIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; EPICHLOE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HOLCUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SWITZERLAND;

BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DACTYLIS; ECOSYSTEM; EPICHLOE; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HOLCUS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84938214831     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-014-0556-5     Document Type: Article

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