The limitations of ancestral state reconstruction and the evolution of the ascus in the lecanorales (Lichenized Ascomycota)

Systematic Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 141-156

  Ekman, Stefan ^a,b   Andersen, Heidi L ^b   Wedin, Mats ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ancestral state reconstruction; Ascomycetes; Ascus; Discrete gamma categories; Lecanorales; Lichens; Phylogeny; Stochastic mapping

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCOTA; CROCYNIACEAE; HAEMATOMMATACEAE; LECANORA; LECANORACEAE; LECANORALES; MEGALARIACEAE; MYCOBLASTACEAE; PILOCARPACEAE; PSORACEAE; RAMALINACEAE;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; LICHENS; PHYLOGENY;

ASCOMYCOTA; EVOLUTION; LICHENS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 47749121116     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150801910451     Document Type: Article

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