Ecology and evolution of the diaspore "burial syndrome"

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1163-1180

  Humphreys, Aelys M ^a   Antonelli, Alexandre ^a,b   Pirie, Michael D ^a,c   Linder, H Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GOTHENBURG BOTANICAL GARDEN   (Sweden)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Ancestral state reconstruction; Character loss; Correlated evolution; Danthonioideae; Poaceae

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GERMINATION; GRASS; HYGROSCOPICITY; LIFE HISTORY; PHYLOGENETICS; SEEDLING; SPORE; SURVIVAL;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GERMINATION; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POACEAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GERMINATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POACEAE; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

DANTHONIOIDEAE; POACEAE; SCHISMUS; TRIBOLIUM (GRASS);

EID: 79953321809     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01184.x     Document Type: Article

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