Claim · model-written summary
Dispersal from Africa to Madagascar occurred in the Late Miocene.
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Verbatim
e0“Africa to Madagascar and Africa to Southeast Asia in the Late Miocene (9.4 Mya) and Pliocene (4.5 Mya), respectively”
Title
Warren M. Cardinal-McTeague; Kenneth J. Wurdack; Erin M. Sigel; et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019. doi:10.1186/s12862-018-1308-9
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- Observation Plukenetia resolved into pinnately and palmately veined clades.
- Observation Plukenetia likely originated in the Amazon or Atlantic Forest of Brazil during the Oligocene.
- Observation Plukenetia dispersed between Brazilian regions and Central America or Mexico during the Miocene.
- Observation Transoceanic dispersal from the Amazon to Africa occurred in the Early Miocene.
- Observation Dispersal from Africa to Southeast Asia occurred in the Pliocene.
- Observation Large seeds had a single origin in the ancestor of Plukenetia.
- Association Seed size evolution fits a Brownian motion model.
- Association Seed size is moderately to strongly associated with plant size, fruit type or dispersal syndrome, and seedling ecology.
- Association Biome shifts did not drive seed size.
- Association Seed size had a weak association with transition to fire prone semi arid savannas.