Parent institute: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Departement Biologie; Afdeling systematiek en ecologie van planten (KULeuven), more
Thesaurus terms (5) : Anatomy; Morphology (plant); Phylogenetics; Plants; Systematics
Geographical terms (4) : Belgium [Marine Regions]; British Isles [Marine Regions]; Kenya [Marine Regions]; Mexico [Marine Regions]
Address:
Kasteelpark Arenberg 31
3001 Leuven
Belgium
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Tel.: +32-(0)16-32 15 35
Fax: +32-(0)16-32 19 68
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Type: Scientific
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1 Director: Head of the department 2 Marine scientist: Works in this research group and acts as (co-)author in at least one marine publication in the last 5 years. 3 Specialized personnel: Provides administrative or technical support to marine scientific research.
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| Our research focuses on the phylogeny of flowering plants and covers almost all subdisciplines of plant systematics. During the past few years molecular systematics has resulted in a vast number of phylogenetic hypotheses of plant relationships at different systematic levels. Some of these conflict with classical hypotheses developed on the basis of structural, morphological, and anatomical data. Therefore the re-evaluation of character homologies is highly needed, particularly among angiosperms, in order to establish more robust phylogenetic hypotheses. This is the main goal of our research: combining morphological and anatomical data with molecular data seeking a better insight in the evolution of the characters and the phylogeny of the group. |
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 Muylaert, K.; Declerck, S.; Geenens, V.; Van Wichelen, J.; Degans, H.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Van Der Gucht, K.; Vloemans, N.; Rommens, W.; Rejas, D.; Urrutia, R.; Sabbe, K.; Gillis, M.; Decleer, K.; De Meester, L.; Vyverman, W. (2003). Zooplankton, phytoplankton and the microbial food web in two turbid and two clearwater shallow lakes in Belgium. Aquat. Ecol. 37(2): 137-150. dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1023988702926, more |
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