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Hydatellaceae: A historical review of systematics and ecology.
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Global analysis of Poales diversification – parallel evolution in space and time into open and closed habitats.
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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... -
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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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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... -
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Monnina (Polygalaceae), a New World monophyletic genus full of contrasts.
Endemic to the Neotropics, Monnina is the second largest genus of Polygalaceae, yet little is known about its phylogenetic history, biogeography, and morphological character evolution. To address these knowledge gaps, we conducted Bayesian and maximum likelihood (ML) analyses of nuclear ITS and plastid trnL–F regions to test the monophyly of...Freire-Fierro, Alina ; Forest, Felix ; Devey, Dion S. ; Barea Pastore, José Floriano ; Horn, James W. …
Ancylotropis, Pteromonnina, Evolution, Biogeography, Monnina, Polygalaceae, and Neotropics
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A Fossil Anthonotha (Leguminosae: Detarioideae: Amherstieae) Species from the Early Miocene (21.73 Ma) of Ethiopia.
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Forty years of research into Crassulacean Acid Metabolism in the genus Clusia : anatomy, ecophysiology and evolution.
Clusia is the only genus containing dicotyledonous trees with a capacity to perform Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM). Since the discovery of CAM in Clusia, 40 years ago, several studies have highlighted the extraordinary plasticity and diversity of life forms, morphology, and photosynthetic physiology of this genus. In this review we...Luján, Manuel ; Leverett, Alistair ; Winter, Klaus
Neotropics, Clusia, Trees, CAM photosynthesis, Plasticity, Ecophysiology, Plant anatomy, Carbon, and Evolution
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Taxonomic significance and evolution of homobaric and heterobaric leaves in Adesmia clade species (Leguminosae – Papilionoideae).
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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... -
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Evolutionary history of the grass gynoecium.
The grass family (Poaceae) includes cereal crops that provide a key food source for the human population. The food industry uses the starch deposited in the cereal grain, which develops directly from the gynoecium. Morphological interpretation of the grass gynoecium remains controversial. We re-examine earlier hypotheses and studies of morphology... -
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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... -
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Safeguarding Imperiled Biodiversity and Evolutionary Processes in the Wallacea Center of Endemism.
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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...
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