Maximum likelihood inference implies a high, not a low, ancestral haploid chromosome number in Araceae, with a critique of the bias introduced by 'x'

Annals of Botany

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 681-692

  Cusimano, Natalie ^a   Sousa, Aretuza ^a   Renner, Susanne S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Araceae; Bayesian inference; chromosome evolution; dysploidy; haploid chromosome number; maximum likelihood inference; polyploidy

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME; CLADISTICS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HERB; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYPLOIDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION;

ALISMATALES; ARACEAE; ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOIDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; POLYPLOIDY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALISMATIDAE; ARACEAE; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOIDY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; POLYPLOIDY;

ALISMATALES; ARACEAE;

EID: 84857712223     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcr302     Document Type: Article

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