Diversification of a large genus in a continental biodiversity hotspot: Temporal and spatial origin of Muraltia (Polygalaceae) in the Cape of South Africa

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 60-74

  Forest, Félix ^a,b   Nänni, Ingrid ^c   Chase, Mark W ^a   Crane, Peter R ^d   Hawkins, Julie A ^b  

^a JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^d ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Cape region; Dating; Dispersal vicariance; Muraltia; Nylandtia; Polygalaceae

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; POLYGALACEAE; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; POLYGALACEAE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MURALTIA; NYLANDTIA; POLYGALACEAE;

EID: 33947722442     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.08.017     Document Type: Article

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