Browsing by Subject "Magnoliopsida"

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    • Deciding among green plants for whole genome studies. 

      Pryer, Kathleen M; Schneider, Harald; Zimmer, Elizabeth A; Ann Banks, Jo (Trends in plant science, 2002-12)
      Recent comparative DNA-sequencing studies of chloroplast, mitochondrial and ribosomal genes have produced an evolutionary tree relating the diversity of green-plant lineages. By coupling this phylogenetic framework to the ...

    • How many species of flowering plants are there? 

      Joppa, Lucas N; Roberts, David L; Pimm, Stuart L (Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2011-02)
      We estimate the probable number of flowering plants. First, we apply a model that explicitly incorporates taxonomic effort over time to estimate the number of as-yet-unknown species. Second, we ask taxonomic experts their ...