Diversification of the newly recognized lichen-forming fungal lineage Montanelia (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) and its relation to key geological and climatic events

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 99, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2014-2026

  Divakar, Pradeep K ^a   Del Prado, Ruth ^a   Thorsten Lumbsch, H ^b   Wedin, Mats ^c   Esslinger, Theodore L ^d   Leavitt, Steven D ^b   Crespo, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^d NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dated phylogenies; Lichens; Mi 1 glaciation; Montanelia; Multilocus phylogenies; New genus; Uncorrelated relaxed molecular clock

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

DIVERGENCE; FUNGUS; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GLACIATION; LICHEN; MIOCENE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MOUNTAIN REGION; NEW GENUS; OLIGOCENE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; UPLIFT;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASTRONOMY; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; LICHEN (ORGANISM); MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ASCOMYCOTA; CLIMATE; DNA, FUNGAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; LICHENS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 84875193982     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1200258     Document Type: Article

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