Neogene-dominated diversification in neotropical montane lichens: Dating divergence events in the lichen-forming fungal genus Oropogon (Parmeliaceae)

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 99, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1764-1777

  Leavitt, Steven D ^a   Esslinger, Theodore L ^b   Thorsten Lumbsch, H ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptic species; Diversity; Lichens; Mexico; Miocene; Molecular dating; Oropogon; Pleistocene; Secondary metabolites; Species boundaries

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DIVERGENCE; FUNGUS; LICHEN; MIOCENE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MONTANE FOREST; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; OLIGOCENE; PHYLOGENETICS; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SECONDARY METABOLITE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; LICHEN (ORGANISM); MEXICO; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ASCOMYCOTA; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC VARIATION; LICHENS; MEXICO; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; OAXACA;

ASCOMYCOTA; OROPOGON; PARMELIACEAE;

EID: 84869025445     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1200146     Document Type: Article

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