A preliminary phylogeny of the 'didymocarpoid Gesneriaceae' based on three molecular data sets: Incongruence with available tribal classifications

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 989-1010

  Möller, Michael ^a   Pfosser, Martin ^b,d   Jang, Chang Gee ^b,e   Mayer, Veronika ^b   Clark, Alexandra ^a   Hollingsworth, Michelle L ^a   Barfuss, Michael H J ^b   Wang, Yin Zheng ^c   Kiehn, Michael ^b   Weber, Anton ^b  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^d Biology Centre Linz   (Austria)

^e Kongju National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

AtpB rbcL spacer; Bayesian inference analysis; ITS; Maximum parsimony; Molecular phylogeny; Old world gesneriaceae; Taxonomy; TrnL F intron spacer

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLADISTICS; DATA SET; DICOTYLEDON; GENE EXPRESSION; MORPHOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY;

BRIGGSIA; CHIRITA; CYRTANDRA; CYRTANDROIDEAE; EPITHEMATEAE; GESNERIACEAE; HENCKELIA;

EID: 67549100970     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.0800291     Document Type: Article

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