Insights into the historical biogeography of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) using geometric morphometry of modern and ancient seeds

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 929-941

  Terral, Jean Frédéric ^a,b   Newton, Claire ^a,c,f   Ivorra, Sarah ^a   Gros Balthazard, Muriel ^a,d   de Morais, Claire Tito ^a,d,g   Picq, Sandrine ^a   Tengberg, Margareta ^e   Pintaud, Jean Christophe ^d  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^e MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agrobiodiversity; Date palm; Domestication; Egypt; Elliptic Fourier transforms; Historical biogeography; Phoenix dactylifera; Seed shape

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CHRONOLOGY; CULTIVATION; DATING METHOD; DOMESTICATION; EVERGREEN TREE; FOURIER TRANSFORM; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GEOMETRY; MORPHOMETRY; MORPHOTYPE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEED; TAXONOMY;

OMAN;

PHOENIX DACTYLIFERA;

EID: 84859839004     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02649.x     Document Type: Article

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