In and out of madagascar: Dispersal to peripheral islands, insular speciation and diversification of indian ocean daisy trees (psiadia, asteraceae)

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Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Strijk, Joeri S ^a,b   Noyes, Richard D ^c   Strasberg, Dominique ^d   Cruaud, Corinne ^e   Gavory, Fredéric ^e   Chase, Mark W ^f   Abbott, Richard J ^g   Thébaud, Christophe ^b  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^b Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^e CEA Fontenay aux Roses Bâtiment 61   (France)

^f JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; INDIAN OCEAN; MADAGASCAR; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PSIADIA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ASTERACEAE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84865020568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042932     Document Type: Article

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