Rate of rbcL gene sequence evolution and species diversification in flowering plants (angiosperms)

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Barraclough, TG
Harvey, PH
Nee, S
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[1] Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, South Parks Road
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10.1098/rspb.1996.0088
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Q [生物科学];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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In sister taxa comparisons, there is a significant, positive correlation between the rate of evolution of the rbcL chloroplast gene within families of flowering plants (angiosperms), and the number of species in those families. We briefly discuss alternative evolutionary scenarios which may have generated this relation between species diversification and molecular evolution in flowering plants.
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