Sympatric speciation in palms on an oceanic island

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7090, 2006, Pages 210-213

  Savolainen, Vincent ^a   Anstett, Marie Charlotte ^b   Lexer, Christian ^a   Hutton, Ian ^c   Clarkson, James J ^a   Norup, Maria V ^a,d   Powell, Martyn P ^a   Springate, David ^a   Salamin, Nicolas ^e   Baker, William J ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^c Department of Systematic Botany University of Aarhus ^*  (Australia)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENGINEERING; MARINE BIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PLASMAS;

ALLOPATRIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL ISOLATION; OCEANIC ISLAND; SYMPATRIC SPECIATION;

BIODIVERSITY;

ISOLATED POPULATION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SELECTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALLOPATRY; ARECACEAE; ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGHER PLANT; HOWEA; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYMPATRY;

LORD HOWE ISLAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANIMALIA; ARECACEAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; HOWEA;

EID: 33646178693     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04566     Document Type: Article

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