Bees diversified in the age of eudicots

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1755, 2013, Pages

  Cardinal, Sophie ^a   Danforth, Bryan N ^b  

^a Arachnids and Nematodes   (Canada)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiosperms; Anthophila; Antiquity; Divergence time estimates; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

BEE; CALIBRATION; CLADISTICS; CRETACEOUS; DIVERGENCE; FLOWERING; FOSSIL RECORD; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; TOPOLOGY;

APOIDEA; EMBRYOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 84876761797     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2686     Document Type: Article

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