A revised time tree of the asterids: establishing a temporal framework for evolutionary studies of the coffee family (rubiaceae).

Divergence time analyses in the coffee family (Rubiaceae) have all relied on the same Gentianales crown group age estimate, reported by an earlier analysis of the asterids, for defining the upper age bound of the root node in their analyses. However, not only did the asterid analysis suffer from sev...

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Main Authors: Niklas Wikström, Kent Kainulainen, Sylvain G Razafimandimbison, Jenny E E Smedmark, Birgitta Bremer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4462594?pdf=render