A metacalibrated time-tree documents the early rise of flowering plant phylogenetic diversity

New Phytologist

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 437-453

  Magallón, Susana ^a   Gómez Acevedo, Sandra ^a   Sánchez Reyes, Luna L ^a   Hernández Hernández, Tania ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Calibrations; Constraints; Diversification; Fossil record; Maximum age; Radiations; Relaxed molecular clocks

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; CALIBRATION; CRETACEOUS; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; FLOWERING; FOSSIL RECORD; META-ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBOTANY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ASTERIDS; LILIOPSIDA; MAGNOLIIDAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; ROSIDAE;

PLANT DNA;

ANGIOSPERM; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID;

ANGIOSPERMS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84931563545     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13264     Document Type: Article

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