Timing the Eastern Asian–Eastern North American Floristic Disjunction: Molecular Clock Corroborates Paleontological Estimates
✍ Scribed by Qiu-Yun Xiang; Douglas E. Soltis; Pamela S. Soltis; Steven R. Manchester; Daniel J. Crawford
- Book ID
- 102617514
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 107 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1055-7903
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✦ Synopsis
Sequence data of the chloroplast gene rbcL were used to estimate the time of the well-known eastern Asianeastern North American floristic disjunction. Sequence divergence of rbcL was examined for 22 species of 11 genera (Campsis,
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