@article {Meimberg:2006p7985,
	title = {Molecular evidence for adaptive radiation of Micromeria Benth. (Lamiaceae) on the Canary Islands as inferred from chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequences and ISSR fingerprint data},
	journal = {Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution},
	volume = {41},
	number = {3},
	year = {2006},
	month = {Dec},
	pages = {566{\textendash}78},
	abstract = {The Canary Islands have been a focus for phylogeographic studies on the colonization and diversification of endemic angiosperm taxa. Based on phylogeographic patterns, both inter island colonization and adaptive radiation seem to be the driving forces for speciation in most taxa. Here, we investigated the diversification of Micromeria on the Canary Islands and Madeira at the inter- and infraspecific level using inter simple sequence repeat PCR (ISSR), the trnK-Intron and the trnT-trnL-spacer of the cpDNA and a low copy nuclear gene. The genus Micromeria (Lamiaceae, Mentheae) includes 16 species and 13 subspecies in Macaronesia. Most taxa are restricted endemics, or grow in similar ecological conditions on two islands. An exception is M. varia, a widespread species inhabits the lowland scrub on each island of the archipelago and could represent an ancestral taxon from which radiation started on the different islands. Our analyses support a split between the "eastern" islands Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria and the "western" islands Tenerife, La Palma and El Hierro. The colonization of Madeira started from the western Islands, probably from Tenerife as indicated by the sequence data. We identified two lineages of Micromeria on Gomera but all other islands appear to be colonized by a single lineage, supporting adaptive radiation as the major evolutionary force for the diversification of Micromeria. We also discuss the possible role of gene flow between lineages of different Micromeria species on one island after multiple colonizations.},
	keywords = {Adaptation: Biological, Atlantic Islands, Dna Fingerprinting, DNA Primers, DNA: Chloroplast, Genetic Variation, Geranyltranstransferase, Introns, Lamiaceae, Molecular Sequence Data, Phylogeny, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Sequence Analysis: DNA},
	doi = {10.1016/j.ympev.2006.05.037},
	author = {Harald Meimberg and Tilmann Abele and Christian Br{\"a}uchler and John K McKay and Pedro L P{\'e}rez de Paz and G{\"u}nther Heubl}
}
@article {Paton:2004p8018,
	title = {Phylogeny and evolution of basils and allies (Ocimeae, Labiatae) based on three plastid DNA regions},
	journal = {Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution},
	volume = {31},
	number = {1},
	year = {2004},
	month = {Apr},
	pages = {277{\textendash}99},
	abstract = {A phylogeny of basils and allies (Lamiaceae, tribe Ocimeae) based on sequences of the trnL intron, trnL-trnF intergene spacer and rps 16 intron of the plastid genome is presented. Several methods were used to reconstruct phylogenies and to assess statistical support for clades: maximum parsimony with equally and successively weighted characters, bootstrap resampling, and Bayesian inference. The phylogeny is used to investigate the distribution of morphological, pericarp anatomy, chemical, and pollen characters as well as the geographical distribution of the clades. Tribe Ocimeae is monophyletic and easily diagnosable with morphological synapomorphies. There are monophyletic clades within Ocimeae that broadly correspond to currently recognised subtribes: Lavandulinae, Hyptidinae, Ociminae, and Plectranthinae. Only Lavandulinae has clear non-molecular synapomorphies. Several currently recognised genera are not monophyletic. Floral morphology consistent with sternotribic pollination is most common in Ocimeae, but there are independent departures from this model. Buzz pollination is likely in some species, the only postulated occurrence of this within Lamiaceae. Quinone diterpenoids and flavones in the leaf exudates differ in their distributions across the phylogeny and this could contribute to differences in the recorded medicinal as well as pesticidal uses of the species in the different clades. Mapping geographic distribution on to an ultrametric phylogenetic tree produced using non-parametric rate smoothing supports an Asiatic origin for Ocimeae. There are several secondary occurrences in Asia arising from the African Ociminae and Plectranthinae clades. Colonisation of Madagascar occurred at least five times, and New World colonisation occurred at least three times.},
	keywords = {Bayes Theorem, Biological Evolution, Diterpenes, DNA: Intergenic, Flavonoids, Introns, Lamiaceae, Molecular Sequence Data, Ocimum basilicum, Phylogeny, Plastids, Pollen},
	doi = {10.1016/j.ympev.2003.08.002},
	author = {Alan J Paton and David Springate and Somran Suddee and Donald Otieno and Ren{\'e}e J Grayer and Madeline M Harley and Fiona Willis and Monique S J Simmonds and Martyn P Powell and Vincent Savolainen}
}
