| Botanists uproot
their old tree of life
A once-obscure
shrub appears to represent the first branch on the family tree of
flowering plants.
References:
Mathews, S., and
M.J. Donoghue. 1999. Early events in the angiosperm radiation:
Evidence from two phytochrome gene pairs. XVI International
Botanical Congress—Abstracts 7.4.3:68.
Qiu, Y. ... D.E.
Soltis, P.S. Soltis, et al. 1999. Phylogeny of basal
angiosperms: Evidence from mitochondrial, chloroplast, and nuclear
genomes, phytochemistry, and morphology. XVI International
Botanical Congress—Abstracts 7.4.1:67.
Taylor, J.W.
1999. Fungi and relatives. XVI International Botanical Congress—Abstracts
17.3.4:221.
Sources:
Michael J.
Donoghue
Harvard University
Herbaria
Cambridge, MA 02138
Brent Mishler
University of California, Berkeley
University Herbarium
1001 ULSB #2465
Berkeley, CA 94720-2465
Yin-Long Qiu
University of Zurich
Zollikerstr. 107
8008 Zurich
Switzerland
Douglas E.
Soltis
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164
Pamela S. Soltis
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164
John W. Taylor
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
Berkeley, CA 94720-3102
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 6, August 7, 1999, p. 85. Copyright © 1999,
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