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BMC Evolutionary Biology BioMed Central Research article Open Access Accelerated evolutionary rates in tropical and oceanic parmelioid lichens (Ascomycota) 1 2 3 3 H Thorsten Lumbsch , Andrew L Hipp , Pradeep K Divakar , Oscar Blanco and Ana Crespo*3 Address: 1Department of Botany, The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA, 2The Morton Arboretum, 4100 Illinois Route 53, Lisle, IL 60532, USA and 3Departamento de Biología Vegetal II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid 28040, Spain Email: H Thorsten Lumbsch - tlumbsch@; Andrew L Hipp - ahipp@; Pradeep K Divakar - pkdivaka@farm.ucm.es; Oscar Blanco - oba@farm.ucm.es; Ana Crespo* - acrespo@farm.ucm.es * Corresponding author Published: 22 September 2008 Received: 6 February 2008 Accepted: 22 September 2008 BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:257 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-257 This article is available from: /1471-2148/8/257 © 2008 Lumbsch et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The rate of nucleotide substitutions is not constant across the Tree of Life, and departures from a molecular clock have been commonly reported. Within parmelioid lichens, the largest g