Escaping the lianoid habit: Evolution of shrub-like growth forms in Aristolochia subgenus Isotrema (Aristolochiaceae)

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1609-1629

  Wagner, Sarah T ^a   Isnard, Sandrine ^a,b   Rowe, Nick P ^c,d   Samain, Marie Stéphanie ^e   Neinhuis, Christoph ^a   Wanke, Stefan ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UMR AMAP   (France)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Ancestral character state reconstruction; Aristolochia; Biomechanics; Chloroplast; Leptocaulous; Liana; Nuclear single copy gene; Pachycaulous; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIOMECHANICS; CHLOROPLAST; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SHRUB;

ARISTOLOCHIA; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DATABASE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; XYLEM; YOUNG MODULUS;

ARISTOLOCHIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICS; DATABASES, GENETIC; ECOSYSTEM; ELASTIC MODULUS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT STEMS; XYLEM;

EID: 84867606938     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1200244     Document Type: Article

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