Phylogenetics, divergence times and diversification from three genomic partitions in monocots

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 375-393

  Hertweck, Kate L ^a,b   Kinney, Michael S ^c   Stuart, Stephanie A ^d   Maurin, Olivier ^e   Mathews, Sarah ^f   Chase, Mark W ^g   Gandolfo, Maria A ^h   Pires, J Chris ^c  

^a NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE   (United States)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^h Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Divergence time estimation; Fossil calibration; Molecular phylogenetics; Monocotyledoneous plants

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA SET; DIVERGENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENOME; HETEROGENEITY; MONOCOTYLEDON; PHYLOGENETICS;

ANIMALIA; ASPARAGALES; COMMELINIDS; LILIOPSIDA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MYA; POALES;

EID: 84930763524     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/boj.12260     Document Type: Article

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