Range disjunctions, speciation, and morphological transformation rates in the liverwort genus Leptoscyphus

Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 779-792

  Devos, Nicolas ^a   Vanderpoorten, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ancestral character state reconstruction; Island calibration; Long distance dispersal; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; DISJUNCT DISTRIBUTION; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HABITAT QUALITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIVERWORT; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TAXONOMY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VICARIANCE;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; LIVERWORT; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SPECIATION; HEPATOPHYTA; PHYLOGENY;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; LEPTOSCYPHUS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 60849108329     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00567.x     Document Type: Article

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