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Molecular Clocks and Inferring Evolutionary Milestones and Biogeography in the Microalgae
| Title: | Molecular Clocks and Inferring Evolutionary Milestones and Biogeography in the Microalgae |
| Authors: | Medlin, Linda K. Browse this author |
| Keywords: | Molecular clocks | | Phylogeny | | Historical biogeography |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Publisher: | 21st Century COE for Neo-Science of Natural History, Hokkaido University |
| Citation: | Edited by Hisatake Okada, Shunsuke F. Mawatari, Noriyuki Suzuki, Pitambar Gautam. ISBN: 978-4-9903990-0-9 |
| Journal Title: | Origin and Evolution of Natural Diversity : Proceedings of the International Symposium, The Origin and Evolution of Natural Diversity, held from 1-5 October 2007 in Sapporo, Japan |
| Start Page: | 31 |
| End Page: | 42 |
| Abstract: | Molecular clocks are proving to be very useful tools for unravelling the evolution of protistan taxa relative to geological change. Molecular clocks have been used to reconstruct the biogeographic history of non-fossilized microalgae from calibration of trees/clocks based on taxa with a fossil record. They have also been used to extrapolate back to the origin of microalgal lineages, to document the appearance of new morphotypes in the fossil record that should be recognised as new species, to estimate the timing of major evolutionary events, viz., endosymbioses and to infer possible explanations for selective survival during global change extinction events. |
| Description: | International Symposium, "The Origin and Evolution of Natural Diversity". 1–5 October 2007. Sapporo, Japan. |
| Conference Name: | International Symposium, "The Origin and Evolution of Natural Diversity" |
| Conference Place: | Sapporo |
| Type: | proceedings |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/38433 |
| Appears in Collections: | Origin and Evolution of Natural Diversity > Proceedings
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