Burning phylogenies: Fire, molecular evolutionary rates, and diversification

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2195-2204

  Verdú, Miguel ^a   Pausas, Juli G ^b,c   Segarra Moragues, José Gabriel ^a   Ojeda, Fernando ^d  

^a CDIS UV Generalitat Valenciana)   (Spain)

^b FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fire; Genetic differentiation; Resprouter; Seeder; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; BIODIVERSITY; FIRE; GENERATION TIME; LIFE HISTORY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FIRE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POINT MUTATION;

ANGIOSPERMS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FIRES; POINT MUTATION; SEEDS;

AFRICA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

BANKSIA; DAVIESIA; LACHNAEA; LEUCADENDRON; THAMNOCHORTUS;

EID: 34548307402     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00187.x     Document Type: Article

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