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CALIBRATION OF MOLECULAR CLOCKS AND THE BIOGEOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF CRYPTERONIACEAE
Author(s) -
Moyle Robert G.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.84
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1558-5646
pISSN - 0014-3820
DOI - 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb00472.x
Subject(s) - vicariance , biological dispersal , gondwana , biology , biogeography , molecular clock , calibration , ecology , paleontology , phylogeography , phylogenetics , statistics , demography , genetics , population , mathematics , sociology , gene , structural basin
A recent molecular clock analysis concluded that Gondwanan vicariance and out‐of‐India dispersal best explained the distribution of Crypteroniaceae and its allies (Conti et al. 2002). A reanalysis of their data using a different molecular dating technique and calibration point is congruent with an alternative hypothesis, namely dispersal between India, Africa, and South America long after the initial break‐up of Gondwana.