Speciation via floral heterochrony and presumed mycorrhizal host switching of endemic butterfly orchids on the Azorean archipelago

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 979-1001

  Bateman, Richard M ^a   Rudall, Paula J ^a   Bidartondo, Martin I ^a,b   Cozzolino, Salvatore ^c   Tranchida Lombardo, Valentina ^d   Carine, Mark A ^e   Moura, Mónica ^f  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^f CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Anagenesis; Character conflict; Cladogenesis; Heterochrony; Homoplasy; Internal transcribed spacer; Migration; Morphometrics; Mycorrhiza; Orchid; Phylogeny; Plastid haplotypes; Platanthera; Speciation; Species circumscription

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PLANT DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

AFRICA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; AZORES; CLASSIFICATION; EUROPE; FLOWER; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; ORCHIDACEAE; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ANIMALS; AZORES; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, PLANT; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EUROPE; FLOWERS; GENETIC SPECIATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MYCORRHIZAE; ORCHIDACEAE; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS;

EID: 84904819951     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1300430     Document Type: Article

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