A single mid-Pleistocene long-distance dispersal by a bird can explain the extreme bipolar disjunction in crowberries (Empetrum)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 6520-6525

  Popp, Magnus ^a   Mirré, Virginia ^a   Brochmann, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Empetreae; Ericaceae; Low copy nuclear genes; Molecular dating

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRD; CLADISTICS; DNA SEQUENCE; EMPETRUM; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEED DISPERSAL; SHRUB;

ACTINIDIA; ALASKA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, PLANT; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLASTIDS; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; EMPETREAE; EMPETRUM; EMPETRUM EAMESII; EMPETRUM NIGRUM; EMPETRUM RUBRUM; ERICACEAE;

EID: 79955581898     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1012249108     Document Type: Article

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