Phylogenetics of the Chamaesyce clade (Euphorbia, Euphorbiaceae): Reticulate evolution and long-distance dispersal in a prominent C4 lineage

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 98, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1486-1503

  Yang, Ya ^a   Berry, Paul E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

C 4 photosynthesis; Chamaesyce; Euphorbia; Hawaiian Islands; long distance dispersal; low copy nuclear marker; reticulate evolution; short chloroplast genome inversion; weeds

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANNUAL PLANT; BIOMARKER; C4 PLANT; CHLOROPLAST; CLADISTICS; DICOTYLEDON; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HYBRIDIZATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; WEED;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EUPHORBIA; EXON; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PLANT; EUPHORBIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENES, PLANT; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS;

CHAMAESYCE; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; PEPLIS;

EID: 84863338062     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1000496     Document Type: Article

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