The endemic Hawaiian flora offers remarkable opportunities to study the patterns of plant
morphological and molecular evolution. The Hawaiian violets are a monophyletic lineage of
nine taxa distributed across six main islands of the Hawaiian archipelago. To describe the
evolutionary relationships, biogeography, and molecular evolution rates of the Hawaiian
violets, we conducted a phylogenetic study using nuclear rDNA internal transcribed spacer
sequences from specimens of each species. Parsimony, maximum likelihood (ML), and …

"Evolutionary relationships, interisland biogeography, and molecular ev" by JC Havran, KJ
Sytsma et al. … Evolutionary relationships, interisland biogeography, and molecular
evolution in the Hawaiian violets … Havran, JC; Sytsma, KJ; and Ballard, HE, "Evolutionary
relationships, interisland biogeography, and molecular evolution in the Hawaiian violets" (2009).
Biology. 34. …