The phylogenetic utility of chloroplast and nuclear DNA markers and the phylogeny of the Rubiaceae tribe Spermacoceae

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 843-866

  Kårehed, Jesper ^a   Groeninckx, Inge ^b   Dessein, Steven ^c   Motley, Timothy J ^d   Bremer, Birgitta ^a  

^a ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c BOTANIC GARDEN MEISE   (Belgium)

^d OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

5S NTS; Accuracy; atpB rbcL; Bayesian inference; ETS; ITS; Partition metric; petD; Phylogenetic utility; Phylogeny; rps16; Rubiaceae; Spermacoceae; trnL F

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; PLANT DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHLOROPLAST; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENOME; PROBABILITY; RUBIACEAE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BAYES THEOREM; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, PLANT; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, PLANT; INTRONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; RUBIACEAE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

HEDYOTIS; KOHAUTIA; OLDENLANDIA; RUBIACEAE; SPERMACOCEAE;

EID: 56549101328     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.09.025     Document Type: Article

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