Parallel evolution and phenotypic divergence in lichenized fungi: A case study in the lichen-forming fungal family Graphidaceae (Ascomycota: Lecanoromycetes: Ostropales)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-63

  Rivas Plata, Eimy ^a,b   Lumbsch, H Thorsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral character state reconstruction; Character evolution; Convergent evolution; Homoplasy; Thelotremataceae

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; LICHENS; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SMALL RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT;

ASCOMYCOTA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LICHENS; MITOCHONDRIA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPORES, FUNGAL;

ASCOMYCOTA; COLUMELLA; FISSURINA; FUNGI; GRAPHIDACEAE; GRAPHIS; LECANOROMYCETES; MYRIOTREMA; MYRIOTREMA LAEVIUSCULUM; OCELLULARIA; OSTROPALES; THELOTREMA; THELOTREMATACEAE; TOPELIOPSIS;

EID: 79958827857     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.04.025     Document Type: Article

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