Dispersing towards Madagascar: Biogeography and evolution of the Madagascan endemics of the Spermacoceae tribe (Rubiaceae)
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- 作者：Steven B. Janssensa ; steven.janssens@botanicgardenmeise.be" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Inge Groeninckxb ; Petra J. De Blocka ; Brecht Verstraetea ; b ; Erik F. Smetsb ; c ; Steven Desseina
- 关键词：Biogeography ; Ancestral area reconstruction ; Rubiaceae ; Madagascar ; Spermacoceae ; Molecular dating
- 刊名：Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：February 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：95
- 期：Complete
- 页码：58-66
- 全文大小：1547 K
文摘
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Two colonization events shaped the herbaceous Spermacoceae endemics on Madagascar.
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Colonization of Madagascar by Spermacoceae occurred from South America and Africa.
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Madagascan Spermacoceae endemics are not the result of Gondwanan vicariance.
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Spermacoceae species colonized Madagascar via Cenozoic long distance dispersal.