Phylogenetic and functional growth from diversification in the Cape grass genus Ehrharta Thunb

Includes bibliography. === This thesis uses phylogenetic and comparative data to test an hypothesis of adaptive radiation in the Cape grass genus Ehrharta Thunb. sensu stricto. Morphological data and sequence data from two noncoding regions of DNA (lTS1 and trnL-F) are used to produce a phylogenetic...

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Main Author: Verboom, George Anthony
Other Authors: Linder, Peter
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6196