The never-ending story of geologically ancient DNA: Was the model plant Arabidopsis the source of Miocene Dominican amber?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 234-240

  Rosselló, Josep A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Marimurtra Bot Garden   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amber; Ancient DNA; Arabidopsis; DNA contamination; Phylogenetics; Pseudogene; rbcL

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; FABACEAE; HYMENAEA; HYMENAEA PROTERA;

EID: 84890442428     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12192     Document Type: Note

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