Climate, niche evolution, and diversification of the "bird-cage" evening primroses (Oenothera, sections Anogra and Kleinia)

American Naturalist

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 225-240

  Evans, Margaret E K ^a   Smith, Stephen A ^a   Flynn, Rachel S ^a   Donoghue, Michael J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparification; Ecological radiation; Phylogeny; Speciation; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA;

DICOTYLEDON; PHYLOGENY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEMIARID REGION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; EVENING PRIMROSE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; OENOTHERA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; KLEINIA; OENOTHERA; ONAGRACEAE;

EID: 61849115722     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/595757     Document Type: Article

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