Biogeography and floral evolution of Baobabs (Adansonia, bombacaceae) as inferred from multiple data sets

Systematic Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-207

  Baum, David A ^a   Small, Randall L ^b   Wendel, Jonathan F ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Data set conflict; Floral evolution; Gondwana; Introgression; Molecular clock; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ADANSONIA; ADANSONIA DIGITATA; MALVACEAE; MAMMALIA;

CHLOROPLAST DNA; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; INTRON; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTH; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TIME; TREE;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION; INTRONS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TIME; TREES;

EID: 0032099630     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106351598260879     Document Type: Article

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