Multilocus phylogeny of the lichen-forming fungal genus Melanohalea (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota): Insights on diversity, distributions, and a comparison of species tree and concatenated topologies

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 138-152

  Leavitt, Steven D ^a   Esslinger, Theodore L ^b   Spribille, Toby ^c   Divakar, Pradeep K ^d   Thorsten Lumbsch, H ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Camouflage lichens; Coalescence; Concatenate; Cryptic species; Lichen distributions; Species delimitation

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; LICHEN (ORGANISM); MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ASCOMYCOTA; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; LICHENS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; MELANOHALEA; PARMELIACEAE;

EID: 84870251006     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.013     Document Type: Article

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