• DOI:10.1038/nature04566
Corpus ID: 867216

Sympatric speciation in palms on an oceanic island

@article{Savolainen2006SympatricSI,
  title={Sympatric speciation in palms on an oceanic island},
  author={V. Savolainen and Marie-Charlotte Anstett and C. Lexer and I. Hutton and J. Clarkson and M. V. Norup and M. Powell and D. Springate and N. Salamin and W. J. Baker},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2006},
  volume={441},
  pages={210-213}
}

V. Savolainen, Marie-Charlotte Anstett, +7 authors W. J. Baker

Published 2006

Biology, Medicine

Nature

The origin of species diversity has challenged biologists for over two centuries. [...] Key Result A large dated phylogenetic tree shows that the two species of Howea, endemic to the remote Lord Howe Island, are sister taxa and diverged from each other well after the island was formed 6.9 million years ago. During fieldwork, we found a substantial disjunction in flowering time that is correlated with soil preference.Expand Abstract

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