References & Sources - January 16, 1999

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Close call takes toll on rare clover

A California clover provides a tidy case study of the genetic havoc caused by a close brush with extinction.

References:

Knapp, E.E., and P.G. Connors. 1999. Genetic consequences of a single-founder population bottleneck in Trifolium amoenum (Fabaceae). Journal of Botany 86(January):124.

Further Readings:

Some 16,000 images of other California plants and habitats can be found at http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/flora/.

Sources:

Eric E. Knapp
University of California, Davis
Center for Population Biology
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8515

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 3, January 16, 1999, p. 43. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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