A Plastid Gene Phylogeny of the Yam Genus, Dioscorea: Roots, Fruits and Madagascar

By Paul Wilkin, P. Schols, Mark W. Chase, K. Chayamarit, C. Furness, S. Huysmans, F. Rakotonasolo, Erik Smets, C. Thapyai. 2005

125 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Félix Forest
2. I. Sanmartín
3. N. Matzke
4. Thomas L. P. Couvreur

In Molecular Biology

1. Félix Forest
2. I. Sanmartín

In Plant Science

1. Paul Wilkin
2. I. Sanmartín

Citations in the corpus

• Late Cretaceous–Early Eocene origin of yams (Dioscorea, Dioscoreaceae) in the Laurasian Palaearctic and their subsequent Oligocene–Miocene diversification (2016, background): “A preliminary plastid phylogeny of Dioscorea identified seven to eight main lineages (Wilkin et al., 2005), greatly simplifying the earlier Journal of Biogeography 43, 750–762 ª 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd 751 classifications of this megadiverse genus (Knuth, 1924; Burkill, 1960).”