Genesis of phenotypic and genotypic diversity in land plants: The present as the key to the past

Systematics and Biodiversity

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-28

  Bateman, Richard M ^a   Dimichele, William A ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Cladistics; Co evolution; DNA sequencing; Ecology; Evolutionary developmental genetics; Key innovation; Macroevolution; Migration; Molecular clock; Morphology; Neobotany; Non adaptation; Palaeobotany; Phylogenetics; Punctuated equilibrium; Radiation; SupraDarwinism; Uniformitarianism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646788535     PISSN: 14772000     EISSN: 14780933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1477200003001051     Document Type: Article

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