How to Handle Speciose Clades? Mass Taxon-Sampling as a Strategy towards Illuminating the Natural History of Campanula (Campanuloideae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Mansion, Guilhem ^a   Parolly, Gerald ^a   Crowl, Andrew A ^b,h   Mavrodiev, Evgeny ^b   Cellinese, Nico ^b   Oganesian, Marine ^c   Fraunhofer, Katharina ^a   Kamari, Georgia ^d   Phitos, Dimitrios ^d   Haberle, Rosemarie ^e   Akaydin, Galip ^f   Ikinci, Nursel ^g   Raus, Thomas ^a   Borsch, Thomas ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Armenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^e PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^g ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CAMPANULA; CAMPANULACEAE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; MASS TAXON SAMPLING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PETD GENE; PHYLOGENY; SAMPLING; TREE;

BAYES THEOREM; CAMPANULACEAE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CAMPANULA;

EID: 84870333471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050076     Document Type: Article

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