Cenozoic extinctions account for the low diversity of extant gymnosperms compared with angiosperms

New Phytologist

Volumn 192, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 997-1009

  Crisp, Michael D ^a   Cook, Lyn G ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Angiosperms; Diversification; Extinction; Fossil record; Gymnosperms; Molecular dating

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CHLOROPLAST; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HABITAT TYPE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NEOGENE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHANEROZOIC; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL; VASCULAR PLANT;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CALIBRATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; GYMNOSPERM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TIME;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIODIVERSITY; CALIBRATION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; GYMNOSPERMS; NUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT STEMS; TIME FACTORS;

CYCADOPSIDA; GINKGO BILOBA; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; METASEQUOIA;

EID: 81055156928     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03862.x     Document Type: Article

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