Reply to Rieseberg and Burke, Heiser, Brown, and Smith: Molecular, linguistic, and archaeological evidence for domesticated sunflower in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 30, 2008, Pages

  Lentz, David L ^a   Pohl, Mary DeLand ^b   Bye, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; COLOMBIA; CULTIVAR; DOMESTICATED PLANT; GEOLOGICAL TIME; LETTER; LINGUISTICS; MEXICO; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUNFLOWER;

HELIANTHUS;

EID: 48749122630     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805347105     Document Type: Letter

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