Effects of a fire response trait on diversification in replicated radiations

Evolution

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 453-465

  Litsios, Glenn ^a,b   Wüest, Rafael O ^c   Kostikova, Anna ^a,b   Forest, Félix ^d   Lexer, Christian ^e   Linder, H Peter ^f   Pearman, Peter B ^c   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^c   Salamin, Nicolas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climatic heterogeneity; Climatic preference evolution; Mediterranean climate; Restionaceae; Speciation

Indexed keywords

RESTIONACEAE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE; CLIMATIC HETEROGENEITY; CLIMATIC PREFERENCE EVOLUTION; FERN; FIRE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RESTIONACEAE; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

CLIMATIC HETEROGENEITY; CLIMATIC PREFERENCE EVOLUTION; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE; RESTIONACEAE; SPECIATION;

AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FERNS; FIRES; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84906942819     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12273     Document Type: Article

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