Darwin's Galapagos gourd: Providing new insights 175 years after his visit

Patrizia Sebastian; Hanno Schaefer; Susanne S. Renner

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02270.x

Darwin's Galapagos gourd: Providing new insights 175 years after his visit

Patrizia Sebastian, Hanno Schaefer, Susanne S. Renner

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The year 2010 marks the 175th anniversary of Charles Darwin's visit to the Galapagos Islands. A recent paper by J. C. Briggs, 'Darwin's biogeography' (. Journal of Biogeography, 2009, 36, 1011-1017), summarizes Darwin's contributions to the field of biogeography, stressing the importance of his natural history specimens. Here, we illustrate how a plant collected by Darwin during his visit to Floreana and not collected since can provide insights into dispersal to oceanic islands as well as extinction of island plants, based on ancient DNA from Darwin's herbarium specimen.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	975-978
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Biogeography
Volume	37
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02270.x
State	Published - May 2010

Keywords

Cucurbitaceae
Darwin's herbarium
Extinction
Galapagos
Island biogeography
Molecular clock
Phylogenetics
Plant viruses
Sicyos

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