Are the liverworts really that old? Cretaceous origins and Cenozoic diversifications in Lepidoziaceae reflect a recurrent theme in liverwort evolution

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 425-441

  Cooper, Endymion D ^a,b   Henwood, Murray J ^a   Brown, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS AND DOMAIN TRUST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Divergence times; Land plants; Molecular clock; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CHLOROPLAST; CRETACEOUS; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENOME; LIVERWORT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

BAZZANIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; FOSSOMBRONIACEAE; JUNGERMANNIALES; JUNGERMANNIIDAE; LEJEUNEACEAE; LEPIDOZIA; LEPIDOZIACEAE; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; MARCHANTIOPSIDA; METZGERIACEAE; METZGERIIDAE; PELLIACEAE; PLAGIOCHILACEAE; PORELLALES; RICCIACEAE; TELARANEA;

EID: 84866330512     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01946.x     Document Type: Article

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