Molecular phylogenetic relationships and morphological evolution in the heterosporous fern genus Marsilea

Systematic Botany

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 16-25

  Nagalingum, Nathalie S ^a   Schneider, Harald ^b   Pryer, Kathleen M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ancestral state reconstruction; Marsilea; Marsileaceae; Phylogeny; Salviniales; trnG trnR intergenic spacer

Indexed keywords

FILICOPHYTA; HYDROPTERIDALES; MARSILEA; MARSILEACEAE;

EID: 34147175926     PISSN: 03636445     EISSN: 15482324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1600/036364407780360256     Document Type: Article

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