Phylogenetic and biogeographic complexity of Magnoliaceae in the Northern Hemisphere inferred from three nuclear data sets

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1027-1040

  Nie, Ze Long ^a,b   Wen, Jun ^a,c,d   Azuma, Hiroshi ^e   Qiu, Yin Long ^f   Sun, Hang ^a   Meng, Ying ^a,g   Sun, Wei Bang ^a   Zimmer, Elizabeth A ^c  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Biogeographic complexity; Disjunction; Magnoliaceae; Northern Hemisphere; Nuclear sequences; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALIBRATION; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; GEOGRAPHY; MAGNOLIACEAE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; TIME;

CALIBRATION; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GEOGRAPHY; MAGNOLIACEAE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS;

MAGNOLIACEAE; MYA;

EID: 50549092309     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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