Divergence time uncertainty and historical biogeography reconstruction - an example from Urophylleae (Rubiaceae)

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2260-2274

  Smedmark, Jenny E E ^a   Eriksson, Torsten ^a   Bremer, Birgitta ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boreotropics; Dispersal extinction cladogenesis; Historical biogeography; Long distance dispersal; Molecular dating; Phylogeny; Rubiaceae; Urophylleae

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DICOTYLEDON; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NEOTROPICAL KINGDOM; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; TOPOLOGY;

AFRICA; ASIA; UNITED STATES;

RUBIACEAE; UROPHYLLEAE;

EID: 78649503959     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02366.x     Document Type: Article

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