Demographic and Genetic Patterns of Variation among Populations of Arabidopsis thaliana from Contrasting Native Environments

Alicia Montesinos; Stephen J. Tonsor; Carlos Alonso-Blanco; F. Xavier Picó

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007213

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Demographic and Genetic Patterns of Variation among Populations of Arabidopsis thaliana from Contrasting Native Environments

Alicia Montesinos,

Affiliations Departamento de Ecología Integrativa, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Sevilla, Spain, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Stephen J. Tonsor,

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Carlos Alonso-Blanco,

Affiliation Departamento de Genética Molecular de Plantas, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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F. Xavier Picó

* E-mail: xpico@ebd.csic.es

Affiliation Departamento de Ecología Integrativa, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Sevilla, Spain
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Demographic and Genetic Patterns of Variation among Populations of Arabidopsis thaliana from Contrasting Native Environments

Alicia Montesinos,
Stephen J. Tonsor,
Carlos Alonso-Blanco,
F. Xavier Picó

Published: September 29, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007213

About the Authors

Alicia Montesinos

Affiliations Departamento de Ecología Integrativa, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Sevilla, Spain, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Stephen J. Tonsor

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Carlos Alonso-Blanco

Affiliation Departamento de Genética Molecular de Plantas, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

F. Xavier Picó

* E-mail: xpico@ebd.csic.es

Affiliation Departamento de Ecología Integrativa, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Sevilla, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM FXP. Performed the experiments: AM FXP. Analyzed the data: FXP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJT CAB FXP. Wrote the paper: AM SJT CAB FXP.

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