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Palm phylogenetic publications co-authored by Kew staff
Baker, W.J., V. Savolainen, C.B. Asmussen-Lange, M.W. Chase, J. Dransfield, F.
Forest, M.M. Harley, N.W. Uhl and M. Wilkinson. In press. Complete generic-level
phylogenetic analyses of palms (Arecaceae) with comparisons of supertree and
supermatrix approaches. Systematic Biology 58: 240–256.
Dransfield, J., M. Rakotoarinivo, W.J. Baker, R.P. Bayton, J.B. Fisher, J.W. Horn, B.
Leroy & X. Metz. 2008. A new coryphoid palm genus from Madagascar. Botanical
Journal of the Linnean Society 156: 79–91.
Trénel, P., M.H.G. Gustafsson, W.J. Baker, C.B. Asmussen-Lange, J. Dransfield, F.
Borchsenius. 2007. Mid-Tertiary dispersal, not Gondwanan vicariance explains
distribution pattern in the wax palm subfamily (Ceroxyloideae: Arecaceae). Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution 45: 272–288.
Norup, M.V., J. Dransfield, M.W. Chase, A.S. Barfod, E.S. Fernando and W.J. Baker.
2006. Homoplasious character combinations and generic delimitation: a case study
from the Indo-Pacific arecoid palms (Arecaceae). American Journal of Botany 93:
1065–1080.
Loo, A.H.B., J. Dransfield, M.W. Chase and W.J. Baker. 2006. Low copy nuclear
DNA, phylogeny and the evolution of dichogamy in the betel nut palms and their
relatives (Arecinae; Arecaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39: 598–618
Asmussen, C.B., J. Dransfield, V. Deickmann, A.S. Barfod, J.-C. Pintaud and W.J.
Baker. 2006. A new subfamily classification of the palm family (Arecaceae):
evidence from plastid DNA. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 151: 15–38.
Baker, W.J., S. Zona, C.D. Heatubun, C.E. Lewis, R.A. Maturbongs, M.V. Norup.
2006. Dransfieldia (Arecaceae) - A new palm genus from western New Guinea.
Systematic Botany 31: 61–69.
Savolainen, V., Anstett, M.-C., Lexer, C., Hutton, I, Clarkson, J.J, Norup, M.V.,
Powell, M.P., Springate, D., Salamin, N. & Baker, W.J. 2006. Sympatric speciation in
palms on an Oceanic island. Nature 441: 210–213.
Thomas, M.M., N.C. Garwood, W.J. Baker, S. A. Henderson, S.J. Russell, D.R.
Hodel and R.M. Bateman. 2006. Molecular phylogeny of the palm genus
Chamaedorea, based on the low-copy nuclear genes PRK and RPB2. Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution 38: 398–415.
Dransfield, J., N.W. Uhl, C.B. Asmussen, W.J. Baker, M.M. Harley and C.E. Lewis.
2005. A new phylogenetic classification of the palm family, Arecaceae. Kew Bulletin
60: 559–569.
Asmussen, C.B. and M.W. Chase. 2001. Coding and noncoding plastid DNA in palm
systematics. American Journal of Botany 88: 1103-1117.
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Baker, W.J., J. Dransfield & T.A. Hedderson. 2000. Phylogeny, character evolution,
and a new classification of the calamoid palms. Systematic Botany 25: 297-322.
Baker, W.J. & J. Dransfield. 2000. Towards a biogeographic explanation of the
calamoid palms. In: K.L. Wilson & D.A. Morrison (eds.) Monocots: Systematics and
Evolution, pp. 545-553. CSIRO, Melbourne.
Asmussen, C.B., W.J. Baker & J. Dransfield. 2000. Phylogeny of the palm family
(Arecaceae) based on rps16 intron and trnL - trnF plastid DNA sequences. In: K.L.
Wilson & D.A. Morrison (eds.) Monocots: Systematics and Evolution, pp. 525-537.
CSIRO, Melbourne.
Baker, W.J., T.A. Hedderson & J. Dransfield. 2000. Molecular phylogenetics of
subfamily Calamoideae (Palmae) based on nrDNA ITS and cpDNA rps16 intron
sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 14: 195-217.
Lewis, C.E., W.J. Baker & C.B. Asmussen. 2000. DNA and Palm Evolution. Palms 44:
19-24.
Baker, W.J., C.B. Asmussen, S.C. Barrow, J. Dransfield & T.A. Hedderson. 1999. A
phylogenetic study of the palm family (Palmae) based on chloroplast DNA sequences
from the trnL-trnF region. Plant Systematics and Evolution 219: 111-126.
Baker, W.J., J. Dransfield, M.M. Harley & A. Bruneau. 1999. Morphology and cladistic
analysis of subfamily Calamoideae (Palmae). In: A. Henderson & F. Borchsenius (eds.)
Evolution and classification of palms. Memoirs of New York Botanical Garden 83:
307-324.
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