Patterns of diversification amongst tropical regions compared: A case study in Sapotaceae

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Armstrong, K E ^a,b,c   Stone, G N ^b   Nicholls, J A ^b   Valderrama Escallon E ^b,c   Anderberg, A A ^d   Smedmark, J ^e   Gautier, L ^f   Naciri, Y ^f   Milne, R ^b   Richardson, J E ^c,g  

^a NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^f Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques ^*  (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Diversification rates; Manilkara; Pantropical; Sapotaceae

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CHLOROPLAST TARGETING SIGNAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FOSSIL PLANT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MANILKARA; MIGRATION; MIMUSOPS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT AGE; PLANT DISPERSAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SAPOTACEAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT;

MANILKARA; MYA; SAPOTACEAE;

EID: 84949116847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00362     Document Type: Article

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