Long branch attraction, taxon sampling, and the earliest angiosperms: Amborella or monocots?

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-35

  Stefanović, Saša ^a,b   Rice, Danny W ^a   Palmer, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACORUS; AMBORELLA; CALYCANTHUS; DICOTYLEDONEAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; LILIOPSIDA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NYMPHAEA; POACEAE;

EID: 10644253746     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-4-35     Document Type: Article

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