Metacommunity process rather than continental tectonic history better explains geographically structured phylogenies in legumes.

Penalized likelihood estimated ages of both densely sampled intracontinental and sparsely sampled transcontinental crown clades in the legume family show a mostly Quaternary to Neogene age distribution. The mode ages of the intracontinental crown clades range from 4-6 Myr ago, whereas those of the t...

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Main Authors: Lavin, M, Schrire, B, Lewis, G, Pennington, RT, Delgado-Salinas, A, Thulin, M, Hughes, C, Matos, AB, Wojciechowski, M
Format: Conference item
Published: 2004