Ancient Rhamnaceae flowers impute an origin for flowering plants exceeding 250-million-years ago
Summary: Setting the molecular clock to newly described 100-million-year-old flowering shoots of Phylica in Burmese amber enabled us to recalibrate the phylogenetic history of Rhamnaceae. We traced its origin to ∼260 million years ago (Ma) that can explain its migration within and beyond Gondwana si...
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Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2022-07-01
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Series: | iScience |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004222009142 |