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Rates of molecular evolution and diversification in plants: chloroplast substitution rates correlate with species-richness in the Proteaceae

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, March 2013
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Title
Rates of molecular evolution and diversification in plants: chloroplast substitution rates correlate with species-richness in the Proteaceae
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, March 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-13-65
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Authors

David Duchene, Lindell Bromham

Abstract

Many factors have been identified as correlates of the rate of molecular evolution, such as body size and generation length. Analysis of many molecular phylogenies has also revealed correlations between substitution rates and clade size, suggesting a link between rates of molecular evolution and the process of diversification. However, it is not known whether this relationship applies to all lineages and all sequences. Here, in order to investigate how widespread this phenomenon is, we investigate patterns of substitution in chloroplast genomes of the diverse angiosperm family Proteaceae. We used DNA sequences from six chloroplast genes (6278bp alignment with 62 taxa) to test for a correlation between diversification and the rate of substitutions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 2 1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Other 5 3%
Unknown 132 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 20%
Researcher 29 20%
Student > Master 25 17%
Student > Bachelor 15 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 11 7%
Other 27 18%
Unknown 11 7%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 109 74%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 6%
Environmental Science 7 5%
Arts and Humanities 2 1%
Computer Science 2 1%
Other 5 3%
Unknown 13 9%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 April 2013.
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#8,534,976
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#1,997
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#35
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