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2024
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A biogeographical appraisal of the threatened South East Africa Montane Archipelago ecoregion..
Recent biological surveys of ancient inselbergs in southern Malawi and northern Mozambique have led to the discovery and description of many species new to science, and overlapping centres of endemism across multiple taxa. Combining these endemic taxa with data on geology and climate, we propose the ‘South East Africa Montane... -
2023
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Global analysis of Poales diversification – parallel evolution in space and time into open and closed habitats.
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2023
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Island area, isolation and climate effects upon flower traits in a megadiverse archipelago.
Trethowan, Liam A. ; Jennings, Laura ; Bramley, Gemma ; Briggs, Marie ; Clark, Ruth …
Flower colour, Islands, Calyx length, Flower size, Malesia, Evolution, Corolla length, and Reproductive traits
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2023
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Phylogenomic inference of the African tribe Monodoreae (Annonaceae) and taxonomic revision of Dennettia, Uvariodendron and Uvariopsis.
Monodoreae (Annonaceae) is a tribe composed of 11 genera and 90 species restricted to the tropical African rain forests. All the genera are taxonomically well circumscribed except the species rich genera and which lack a recent taxonomic revision. Here, we used a robust phylogenomic approach, including all the 90 currently... -
2023
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Precipitation is the main axis of tropical plant phylogenetic turnover across space and time.
Early natural historians—Comte de Buffon, von Humboldt, and De Candolle—established environment and geography as two principal axes determining the distribution of groups of organisms, laying the foundations for biogeography over the subsequent 200 years, yet the relative importance of these two axes remains unresolved. Leveraging phylogenomic and global species distribution... -
2022
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Safeguarding Imperiled Biodiversity and Evolutionary Processes in the Wallacea Center of Endemism.
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2023
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Morphological Continua Make Poor Species: Genus-Wide Morphometric Survey of the European Bee Orchids (Ophrys L.).
Despite (or perhaps because of) intensive multidisciplinary research, opinions on the optimal number of species recognised within the Eurasian orchid genus Ophrys range from nine to at least 400. The lower figure of nine macrospecies is based primarily on seeking small but reliable discontinuities in DNA ‘barcode’ regions, an approach... -
2022
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Madagascar’s extraordinary biodiversity: Evolution, distribution, and use.
Madagascar’s biota is hyperdiverse and includes exceptional levels of endemicity. We review the current state of knowledge on Madagascar’s past and current terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity by compiling and presenting comprehensive data on species diversity, endemism, and rates of species description and human uses, in addition to presenting an updated... -
2020
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A large-scale species level dated angiosperm phylogeny for evolutionary and ecological analyses.
Phylogenies are a central and indispensable tool for evolutionary and ecological research. Even though most angiosperm families are well investigated from a phylogenetic point of view, there are far less possibilities to carry out large-scale meta-analyses at order level or higher. Here, we reconstructed a large-scale dated phylogeny including nearly...Janssens, Steven ; Couvreur, Thomas L.P. ; Mertens, Arne ; Dauby, Gilles ; Dagallier, Leo-Paul …
Ecology, Phylogeny, Evolution, Large-scale dating analyses, and Angiosperms
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2022
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Diversification dynamics in the Neotropics through time, clades, and biogeographic regions.
The origins and evolution of the outstanding Neotropical biodiversity are a matter of intense debate. A comprehensive understanding is hindered by the lack of deep-time comparative data across wide phylogenetic and ecological contexts. Here, we quantify the prevailing diversification trajectories and drivers of Neotropical diversification in a sample of 150... -
2022
Research report
Kew Tree of Life Explorer - Release notes 2.0.
Release notes for the Tree of Life Explorer data release 2.0Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Phylogenetics, Tree of Life, Plant and Fungal Tree of Life Project, and Evolution
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2022
Journal article
Evolutionary patterns of genome size and chromosome number variation in Begoniaceae.
Cytological data resources are crucial to the study and understanding of the evolution of complex taxa. Recent research on the genus Begonia L. has provided a robust phylogenetic background for the analysis of evolutionary patterns across the group and has established that Begonia is variable in genome size and chromosome...Campos-Dominguez, Lucia ; Pellicer, Jaume ; Matthews, Andrew ; Leitch, Ilia J ; Kidner, Catherine A
Genome size, Evolution, Begoniaceae, C-values, Begonia, and Chromosomes
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2022
Journal article
Insights into the evolution of the chloroplast genome and the phylogeny of Begonia.
Begonia (Begoniaceae) is one of the largest angiosperm genera, comprising more than 2000 species; this makes it ideal as a model to investigate the genomic basis of species radiations. Here we present the results of the first genus-wide comparative study of plastid genome structure, sequence diversity, and phylogenetics of Begoniaceae,... -
2022
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Untargeted Metabolomics Sheds Light on the Diversity of Major Classes of Secondary Metabolites in the Malpighiaceae Botanical Family.
Natural products produced by plants are one of the most investigated natural sources, which substantially contributed to the development of the natural products field. Even though these compounds are widely explored, the literature still lacks comprehensive investigations aiming to explore the evolution of secondary metabolites produced by plants, especially if...Systematics, Evolution, Chemotaxonomy, Metabolomics, Malpighiales, Ancestral character reconstruction, Metabolite annotation, and Mass spectrometry
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2022
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The rise of grasslands is linked to atmospheric CO2 decline in the late Palaeogene.
Grasslands are predicted to experience a major biodiversity change by the year 2100. A better understanding of how grasslands have responded to past environmental changes will help predict the outcome of current and future environmental changes. Here, we explore the relationship between past atmospheric CO and temperature fluctuations and the...Palazzesi, Luis ; Hidalgo, Oriane ; Barreda, Viviana D. ; Forest, Félix ; Höhna, Sebastian
Palaeogene, Grasslands, Evolution, Environmental sciences, and Phylogeny
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2021
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Evolutionary history of CAM photosynthesis in Neotropical Clusia : insights from genomics, anatomy, physiology and climate.
Clusia is a remarkable genus of Neotropical woody plants as its members engage in either C3 photosynthesis or employ, to varying degrees, crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) photosynthesis. Information about the evolutionary history of CAM in Clusia is scarce. Restriction site-associated sequencing of 64 species (20% of the genus) provided strong... -
2021
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The rise and fall of Neotropical biodiversity.
Antonelli, Alexandre
Conservation, Evolution, and Extinction
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2020
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Assessing the evolution of wheat grain traits during the last 166 years using archived samples.
Ben Mariem, Sinda ; Gámez, Angie L. ; Larraya, Luis ; Fuertes-Mendizabal, Teresa ; Cañameras, Nuria …
Evolution, Natural variation in plants, Plant development , Plant stress responses, and Triticum
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2011
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Orchid research newsletter no. 58
This newsletter is published twice a year and provides details of recent orchid literature, changes in orchid nomenclature and news from the orchid world (including upcoming conferences, book reviews and tributes).Pridgeon, Alec
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2012
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Orchid research newsletter no. 59
This newsletter is published twice a year and provides details of recent orchid literature, changes in orchid nomenclature and news from the orchid world (including upcoming conferences, book reviews and tributes).Pridgeon, Alec
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2012
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Orchid research newsletter no. 60
This newsletter is published twice a year and provides details of recent orchid literature, changes in orchid nomenclature and news from the orchid world (including upcoming conferences, book reviews and tributes).Pridgeon, Alec
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2013
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Orchid research newsletter no. 61
This newsletter is published twice a year and provides details of recent orchid literature, changes in orchid nomenclature and news from the orchid world (including upcoming conferences, book reviews and tributes).Pridgeon, Alec
Botanical history, Intelligent design, Evolution, Creationism, Bibliographes, and Orchidaceae