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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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