Exploring the relationships between mutation rates, life history, genome size, environment, and species richness in flowering plants

American Naturalist

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 508-524

  Bromham, Lindell ^a   Hua, Xia ^a   Lanfear, Robert ^a,b   Cowman, Peter F ^a,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiosperm; Comparative; Diversification rate; Phylogeny; Substitution rates

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; CHLOROPLAST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVERGENCE; GENOME; LIFE HISTORY; MITOCHONDRION; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN; SPECIES RICHNESS;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

ANGIOSPERM; CHLOROPLAST GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; GENOME SIZE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MUTATION RATE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENOME; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANGIOSPERMS; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME SIZE; GENOME, CHLOROPLAST; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, PLANT; MUTATION RATE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84928243195     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/680052     Document Type: Article

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