Watermelon origin solved with molecular phylogenetics including Linnaean material: Another example of museomics

New Phytologist

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 526-532

  Chomicki, Guillaume ^a   Renner, Susanne S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Citrullus; Crop origin; Domestication; Phylogenetics; Taxonomy; Watermelon

Indexed keywords

CITRULLUS; CITRULLUS ECIRRHOSUS; CITRULLUS LANATUS; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. CITROIDES; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS;

AFRICA; CITRULLUS; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AFRICA, WESTERN; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CITRULLUS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84919632564     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13163     Document Type: Article

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