Understanding the formation of Mediterranean-African-Asian disjunctions: Evidence for Miocene climate-driven vicariance and recent long-distance dispersal in the Tertiary relict Smilax aspera (Smilacaceae)

New Phytologist

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 243-255

  Chen, Chen ^a,b   Qi, Zhe Chen ^a,b   Xu, Xi Hui ^a,b   Comes, Hans Peter ^c   Koch, Marcus A ^d   Jin, Xin Jie ^a   Fu, Cheng Xin ^a,b   Qiu, Ying Xiong ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ancestral area reconstruction; Chloroplast DNA; Eurasian African disjunctions; Molecular dating; Phylogenetic analyses; Phylogeographical inference; Ribosomal DNA; Smilax aspera

Indexed keywords

DISJUNCT DISTRIBUTION; DISPERSAL; DIVERGENCE; MIOCENE; MONOCOTYLEDON; PALEOCLIMATE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; RELICT SPECIES; VICARIANCE;

AFRICA; ASIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

SMILACACEAE; SMILAX; SMILAX ASPERA;

CHLOROPLAST DNA;

AFRICA; ASIA; CLIMATE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SARSAPARILLA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AFRICA; ASIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; GENETIC SPECIATION; HAPLOTYPES; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SMILAX;

EID: 84906942834     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12910     Document Type: Article

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