Not an ancient relic: The endemic Livistona palms of arid central Australia could have been introduced by humans

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1738, 2012, Pages 2652-2661

  Kondo, Toshiaki ^a   Crisp, Michael D ^b   Linde, Celeste ^b   Bowman, David M J S ^c   Kawamura, Kensuke ^a   Kaneko, Shingo ^d   Isagi, Yuji ^d  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coalescence; Divergence time estimation; Microsatellite; Palms; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

LIVISTONA; LIVISTONA MARIAE;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PLANT DNA;

ARECACEAE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DESERT CLIMATE; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ARECACEAE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; DESERT CLIMATE; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENETICS, POPULATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84986887451     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0103     Document Type: Article

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