Overview
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Fernanda Antunes Carvalho
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Department für Biologie Systematische Botanik und Mykologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
- Study in the field of natural sciences
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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- Fernanda Antunes Carvalho
Pages 1-12
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- Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Denis Filer, Susanne S. Renner
Pages 13-31
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- Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Susanne S. Renner
Pages 33-47
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- Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Susanne S. Renner
Pages 49-81
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- Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Alexander Rockinger, Aretuza Sousa, Susanne S. Renner
Pages 83-92
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- Fernanda Antunes Carvalho
Pages 93-105
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Back Matter
Pages 107-147
About this book
Fernanda Antunes Carvalho addresses an issue of key importance to the field of systematics, namely how to foster taxonomic work and the dissemination of scientific knowledge about species by taking full advantage of electronic data and bioinformatics tools. The first part focuses on the development of an electronic monograph of the papaya family (Caricaceae) using existing infrastructures of Information Technology (IT) and bioinformatic tools that together set the stage for a new era of systematics. Based on the plastid and nuclear DNA data, the author inferred historical processes in the second part that may have shaped the evolution of the Caricaceae and explain their current geographic distribution. The last part is dedicated to the evolution of chromosome numbers in the Caricaceae and includes counts for species from three genera (Cylicomorpha, Horovitzia, Jarilla) that have never been investigated before.
About the author
Dr. Fernanda Antunes Carvalho completed her Ph.D. in Botany at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. She is now a post-doc at the University of Gothenburg.