Molecular phylogenetics of the Brazilian giant bromeliads (Alcantarea, Bromeliaceae): Implications for morphological evolution and biogeography

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 177-189

  Versieux, Leonardo M ^a   Barbará, Thelma ^b   Wanderley, Maria das Graças Lapa ^c   Calvente, Alice ^a   Fay, Michael F ^b   Lexer, Christian ^b,d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^b JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c Pós graduação em Biodiversidade Vegetal e Meio Ambiente   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alcantarea; Atlantic rainforest; Floricaula Leafy; Hybridization; Inselbergs; Microsatellites; Radiation; Tillandsioideae; Vriesea

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAZIL; BROMELIACEAE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FLOWER; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAZIL; BROMELIACEAE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWERS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALCANTAREA; ALCANTAREA IMPERIALIS; BROMELIACEAE; VRIESEA;

EID: 84860561738     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.03.015     Document Type: Article

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