Journey from the west: Did tropical graphidaceae (lichenized ascomycota: Ostropales) evolve from a saxicolous ancestor along the American pacific coast?

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 844-856

  Lucking, Robert ^a   Tehler, Anders ^b   Bungartz, Frank ^c   Rivas Plata, Eimy ^a,d   Lumbsch, H Thorsten ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^c Departamento de Ciencias Marinas y Costeras   (Ecuador)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphidaceae; Lichens; Mediterranean regions; Ostropales; Pacific desert; Rock inhabiting; Sonoran desert

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; EPIPHYTE; LICHEN; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RECONSTRUCTION; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GRAPHIDACEAE; LICHEN (ORGANISM); MEDITERRANEAN REGIONS; OSTROPALES; PACIFIC DESERT; PHYLOGENY; ROCK-INHABITING; SONORAN DESERT; TROPICAL SPASTIC PARAPARESIS; UNITED STATES;

GRAPHIDACEAE; LICHENS; MEDITERRANEAN REGIONS; OSTROPALES; PACIFIC DESERT; ROCK-INHABITING; SONORAN DESERT;

ASCOMYCOTA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DEMOGRAPHY; LICHENS; PARAPARESIS, TROPICAL SPASTIC; PHYLOGENY; UNITED STATES;

ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84878146645     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1200548     Document Type: Article

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