Using fossils and molecular data to reveal the origins of the Cape proteas (subfamily Proteoideae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-43

  Sauquet, Hervé ^a,b,c   Weston, Peter H ^b   Barker, Nigel P ^d   Anderson, Cajsa Lisa ^e   Cantrill, David J ^c,f   Savolainen, Vincent ^a,g  

^a JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS AND DOMAIN TRUST   (Australia)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^d RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian dating; Cape clades; Cape Floristic Region; Fossil calibration; Molecular dating; Penalized likelihood; Proteaceae

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

AFRICA; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AFRICA, SOUTHERN; ANGIOSPERMS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PROTEA; PROTEACEAE; PROTEOIDEAE; ZANCLEA;

EID: 64149107353     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.12.013     Document Type: Article

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