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SUBMITTER: Bena G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1689169 | biostudies-other | 1998 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Bena G G Lejeune B B Prosperi J M JM Olivieri I I
Proceedings. Biological sciences 19980601 1401
We present a molecular phylogeny including most species of the genus Medicago L. (Fabaceae). Based on the consensus of the 48 most parsimonious trees, life-history and mating-system characters are mapped, and a putative history of the genus is suggested. The most parsimonious reconstruction suggests an ancestral annual and selfing state, and recurrent evolution towards perenniality and outcrossing. Based on theoretical predictions and classical hypotheses of the history of the genus, different a ...[more]