Cape diversification and repeated out-of-southern-Africa dispersal in paper daisies (Asteraceae-Gnaphalieae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-18

  Bergh, Nicola G ^a,b   Peter Linder, H ^c  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c Institute of Systematic Botany   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ancestral area; Asteraceae; Australia; Biogeography; Gnaphalieae; Long distance dispersal; Relhaniinae; Southern Africa; Uncorrelated relaxed Bayesian clock; West Wind Drift

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AFRICA, SOUTHERN; ASTERACEAE; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ASTERACEAE; GNAPHALIEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 64549140782     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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