Insights into global planktonic diatom diversity:Comparisons between phylogenetically meaningful unitsthat account for time
T. Nakov, J. Beaulieu, A. Alverson
The paper shows that genus-level analyses of diatom diversity are confounded by varying speciation/extinction rates and phylogenetic nesting, emphasizing the need for phylogenetic approaches.
bioRxiv · Jul 24, 2017Evolutionary Biology