Species delimitation and cryptic diversity in the moss genus Scleropodium (Brachytheciaceae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 891-903

  Carter, Benjamin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bryophyte; California; Monophyly; Pleurocarpous mosses; Speciation

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRYOPSIDA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BAYES THEOREM; BRYOPSIDA; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BRACHYTHECIACEAE; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; SCLEROPODIUM; SCLEROPODIUM CESPITANS; SCLEROPODIUM JULACEUM; SCLEROPODIUM OBTUSIFOLIUM; SCLEROPODIUM TOURETII;

EID: 84859863717     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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