Calibrated chronograms, fossils, outgroup relationships, and root priors: Re-examining the historical biogeography of Geraniales

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 29-49

  Sytsma, Kenneth J ^a   Spalink, Daniel ^a   Berger, Brent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BEAST; Best practices; ITS; Molecular clock; Myrtales; Rosids; Substitution saturation; trnL F

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CALIBRATION; CAMPANIAN; EOCENE; FOSSIL RECORD; HERB; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OROGENY; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SATURATION; TOPOLOGY;

GERANIALES; MYA; MYRTALES; PELARGONIUM; ROSIDAE; ROSIDS;

EID: 84906303337     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12297     Document Type: Article

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