Utility of a large, multigene plastid data set in inferring higher-order relationships in ferns and relatives (monilophytes)

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1444-1456

  Rai, Hardeep S ^a,b   Graham, Sean W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep phylogeny; Equisetaceae; Euphyllophytes; Hymenophyllaceae; Long branch attraction; Marattiaceae; Selaginellaceae; Tracheophytes; Vascular plant phylogeny

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; DATA SET; FERN; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIFE HISTORY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; TAXONOMY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VASCULAR PLANT;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EQUISETACEAE; EQUISETUM; EUPHYLLOPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; HYMENOPHYLLACEAE; HYMENOPHYLLUM; MARATTIACEAE; OPHIOGLOSSACEAE; OSMUNDACEAE; PSILOTACEAE; SELAGINELLA; SELAGINELLACEAE; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 78049317316     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.0900305     Document Type: Article

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