Long branch attraction, taxon sampling, and the earliest angiosperms: <it>Amborella </it>or monocots?

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Numerous studies, using in aggregate some 28 genes, have achieved a consensus in recognizing three groups of plants, including <it>Amborella</it>, as comprising the basal-most grade of all other angiosperms. A major excep...

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Main Authors: Rice Danny W, Stefanović Saša, Palmer Jeffrey D
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2004-09-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/4/35