Claim · model-written summary
Divergence analyses suggest a Mid to Late Miocene Calymperaceae radiation accompanying tropical forest spread.
- Taxon
- CalymperaceaeCalymperaceaee1
- Outcome
- radiatione0
- Qualifier
- Mid to Late Miocenee0
- Setting
- tropical forestse0
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Verbatim
e0“Divergence time analyses suggest a relatively recent (Mid to Late Miocene) radiation accompanying the spread of tropical forests coupled by multiple, independent pantropical exchanges.”
e1“Calymperaceae is a large moss family well represented in lowland tropical rain forests worldwide.”
Title
Marta Regina Pereira; Paulo E. A. S. Câmara; Bruno S. Amorim; et al. The Bryologist 2019. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-122.2.183
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- Observation Pseudocalymperes was recovered as monophyletic.
- Observation Hyalolimbatae is polyphyletic, with sampled taxa in three separately supported clades.
- Observation The analyses suggest multiple independent pantropical exchanges in Calymperaceae.
- Observation Strong phylogeographic signal was recovered in Calymperaceae.
- Observation Multiple Calymperaceae sister groups showed close geographical ties between Amazonian and Asian Pacific taxa.
- Observation Intercontinental migrations followed by cladogenic events are inferred to have occurred repeatedly from 20 mya in Calymperaceae.