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Diversification of land plants: insights from a family-level phylogenetic analysis.
BMC evolutionary biology - 21 Nov 2011
Fiz-Palacios Omar, Schneider Harald, Heinrichs Jochen, Savolainen Vincent
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Some of the evolutionary history of land plants has been documented based on the fossil record and a few broad-scale phylogenetic analyses, especially focusing on angiosperms and ferns. Here, we reconstructed phylogenetic relationships among all 706 families of land plants using molecular data. We dated the phylogeny using multiple fossils and a molecular clock technique. Applying various tests of...
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