Claim · model-written summary
Plukenetia likely originated in the Amazon or Atlantic Forest of Brazil during the Oligocene.
- Taxon
- Plukenetia
Plukenetiae0 - Outcome
- originatede0
- Value
- 28.7 Myae0
- Setting
- Amazon or Atlantic Forest of Brazile0
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Verbatim
e0“Plukenetia originated in the Amazon or Atlantic Forest of Brazil during the Oligocene (28.7 Mya)”
Title
Warren M. Cardinal-McTeague; Kenneth J. Wurdack; Erin M. Sigel; et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019. doi:10.1186/s12862-018-1308-9
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Plukenetia resolved into pinnately and palmately veined clades.
- 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 Madagascar occurred in the Late 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.