Elucidating the evolutionary history of the Southeast Asian, holoparasitic, giant-flowered Rafflesiaceae: Pliocene vicariance, morphological convergence and character displacement

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 620-633

  Bendiksby, Mika ^a   Schumacher, Trond ^a   Gussarova, Galina ^a,g   Nais, Jamili ^b   Mat Salleh, Kamarudin ^c   Sofiyanti, Nery ^c   Madulid, Domingo ^d   Smith, Stephen A ^e   Barkman, Todd ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ^*  (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^d National Museum of the Philippines   (Philippines)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

16S; Atp6; Bayesian inference; BEAST; Biogeographic history; Character displacement; DIVA; Homoplasy; ITS; LAGRANGE C++; MatR; Nad1 B C intron; Philippines; Phylogeny; Rafflesia; Rafflesiaceae; Rhizanthes; Sapria; Southeast Asia; Sundaland

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ANGIOSPERMS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY;

RAFFLESIA; RAFFLESIACEAE; RHIZANTHES; SAPRIA; ZANCLEA;

EID: 78049388980     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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