Molecular Phylogeny and Biogeographic Diversification of Linnaeoideae (Caprifoliaceae s. l.) Disjunctly Distributed in Eurasia, North America and Mexico

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Wang, Hua-Feng, Landrein, Sven, Dong, Wen-Pan, Nie, Ze-Long, Kondo, Katsuhiko, Funamoto, Tsuneo, Wen, Jun, Zhou, Shi-Liang
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2015
• Subjects: Research Article; Sisters The; Bering Land Bridge; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4355296; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25756215; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116485

Linnaeoideae is a small subfamily of erect or creeping shrubs to small trees in Caprifoliaceae that exhibits a wide disjunct distribution in Eurasia, North America and Mexico. Most taxa of the subfamily occur in eastern Asia and Mexico but the monospecific genus Linnaea has a circumboreal to north t...