A fossil-calibrated relaxed clock for Ephedra indicates an Oligocene age for the divergence of Asian and New World clades and Miocene dispersal into South America

Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 444-456

  Ickert Bond, Stefanie M ^a   Catarina, Rydin ^b   Renner, Susanne S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Ephedra; Relaxed molecular clock dating; Uncorrelated rates model

Indexed keywords

EPHEDRA; GNETALES; GNETUM; MYA; WELWITSCHIA;

EID: 70350278632     PISSN: 16744918     EISSN: 17596831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-6831.2009.00053.x     Document Type: Article

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