Rapid radiation of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) during Pliocene and Pleistocene: Result of a global climate change

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 806-824

  Janssens, Steven B ^a   Knox, Eric B ^b   Huysmans, Suzy ^a   Smets, Erik F ^a,c   Merckx, Vincent S F T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN BRANCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Global cooling; Impatiens; Pleistocene; Pliocene; Rapid radiation

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; IMPATIENS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHINA; CLIMATE; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; IMPATIENS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BALSAMINACEAE; IMPATIENS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; ZANCLEA;

EID: 67649652026     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.04.013     Document Type: Article

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