Angiosperm phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 704-730

  Soltis, Douglas E ^a   Smith, Stephen A ^b   Cellinese, Nico ^c   Wurdack, Kenneth J ^d   Tank, David C ^e   Brockington, Samuel F ^f   Refulio Rodriguez, Nancy F ^g   Walker, Jay B ^h   Moore, Michael J ⁱ   Carlsward, Barbara S ^j   Bell, Charles D ^k   Latvis, Maribeth ^a,c   Crawley, Sunny ^l   Black, Chelsea ^l   Diouf, Diaga ^l,m   Xi, Zhenxiang ⁿ   Rushworth, Catherine A ⁿ   Gitzendanner, Matthew A ^a,c   Sytsma, Kenneth J ^h   Qiu, Yin Long ^o   Hilu, Khidir W ^l   Davis, Charles C ⁿ   Sanderson, Michael J ^p   Beaman, Reed S ^c   Olmstead, Richard G ^g   Judd, Walter S ^a   Donoghue, Michael J ^q   Soltis, Pamela S ^c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

ⁱ OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^j EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^l VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m Université Cheikh AntDeara Diop   (Senegal)

ⁿ HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^p University of Arizona   (United States)

^q YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Angiosperms; Bioinformatics; Large data sets; Molecular systematics; RAxML; Superasteridae; Supermatrix; Superrosidae

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PLANT DNA;

BIOINFORMATICS; DATA SET; DICOTYLEDON; GENOME; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PALEOBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SAMPLING; TAXONOMY;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLAST; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME;

ANGIOSPERMS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MITOCHONDRIA; NUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AMBORELLACEAE; ASTERIDS; AUSTROBAILEYALES; CARYOPHYLLALES; CERATOPHYLLACEAE; CHLORANTHALES; DILLENIACEAE; GUNNERALES; LILIOPSIDA; MAGNOLIIDAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NYMPHAEALES; ROSIDAE; SANTALALES; SAXIFRAGALES; VITACEAE;

EID: 84863337944     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1000404     Document Type: Article

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