Evolutionary events in Lilium (including Nomocharis, Liliaceae) are temporally correlated with orogenies of the Q-T plateau and the Hengduan Mountains

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 443-460

  Gao, Yun Dong ^a,b   Harris, A J ^c   Zhou, Song Dong ^a   He, Xing Jin ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian Binary Method (BBM); Biodiversity hotspot; Diversification rate; Hengduan Mountains; Intercontinental dispersal; Lilium Nomocharis complex; Reconstruct Ancestral State in Phylogenies (RASP)

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RNA 5.8S;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; LILY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

ALTITUDE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHINA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LILIUM; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

LILIACEAE; LILIUM; MYA; NOMOCHARIS;

EID: 84878234752     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.04.026     Document Type: Article

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