The Age of Chocolate: a biogeographic history of Theobroma and Malvaceae

Dated molecular phylogenies of broadly distributed lineages can help to compare patterns of diversification in different parts of the world. An explanation for greater Neotropical diversity compared to other parts of the tropics is that it was an accident of the Andean orogeny. Using dated phylogeni...

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Main Authors: James Edward Richardson, Barbara A Whitlock, Alan eMeerow, Santiago eMadriñán
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fevo.2015.00120/full