Estimating the Phanerozoic history of the Ascomycota lineages: Combining fossil and molecular data

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 307-319

  Beimforde, Christina ^a   Feldberg, Kathrin ^b   Nylinder, Stephan ^c   Rikkinen, Jouko ^d   Tuovila, Hanna ^d   Dörfelt, Heinrich ^e   Gube, Matthias ^a,e   Jackson, Daniel J ^a   Reitner, Joachim ^a   Seyfullah, Leyla J ^a   Schmidt, Alexander R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amber; Ascomycota; BEAST; Divergence times estimates; Fossil constraints; Fungi

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCETES; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ASCOMYCOTA; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84902436715     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.04.024     Document Type: Article

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