Molecular phylogenetics and character evolution of the "sacaca" clade: Novel relationships of Croton section Cleodora (Euphorbiaceae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 193-206

  Caruzo, Maria Beatriz R ^a,b   van Ee, Benjamin W ^c   Cordeiro, Inês ^b   Berry, Paul E ^d   Riina, Ricarda ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais do Estado de São Paulo   (Brazil)

^c BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Croton cajucara; Neotropical Croton; Section Cleodora; Subsection Sphaerogyni; Subsection Spruceani

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CROTON; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FLOWER; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAZIL; CROTON; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FLOWERS; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CROTON CAJUCARA; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE;

EID: 79957908795     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.04.013     Document Type: Article

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