Floral gigantism in rafflesiaceae

Science

Volumn 315, Issue 5820, 2007, Pages 1812-

  Davis, Charles C ^a   Latvis, Maribeth ^a   Nickrent, Daniel L ^b   Wurdack, Kenneth J ^c   Baum, David A ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; EVOLUTION; FLOWER; LEAF; MORPHOLOGY; PARASITIC PLANT; STEM;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; FLOWER; FLOWER MORPHOLOGY; GIGANTISM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAFFLESIACEAE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; EUPHORBIA; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; RAFFLESIACEAE;

ANGIOSPERMS; BAYES THEOREM; EUPHORBIACEAE; EVOLUTION; FLOWERS; GENES, PLANT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 34147187221     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1135260     Document Type: Article

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14. We thank W. Anderson, H. Cowles, P. Endress, J. Finarellli, J. Hall, A. Knoll, E. Kramer, J. Losos, C. Moreau, B. O'Meara, A. Pringle, B. Ruhfel, and P. Stevens for helpful discussion. C.C.D. was supported by NSF Assembling the Tree of Life (EF 04-31242) and by the Michigan Society of Fellows.