Benedikt Kuhnhaeuser Profile picture
PhD student of rattan palm evolution and diversity @UniofOxford and @kewgardens
Jan 23, 2021 10 tweets 6 min read
The calamoid palms 🌴 have over 500 species spread across the world, but their higher-level relationships were a bit of a mystery. Until now.

Out today in #MolecularPhylogeneticsAndEvolution:

A robust phylogenomic framework for the calamoid palms authors.elsevier.com/c/1cSr33m3nM-x…

1/10 First some background info, so that you know what we are talking about:

Calamoid palms look a bit like snakes 🐍 (don't they!?!), because their fruits are covered in overlapping scales. And with their often fierce spines, they are equally fearsome. 😱

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