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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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Doctoral thesis
Phylogenetic relationships of Fabales, the effect of outgroups on Fabales topology and the evolution of keel flowers within the order.
Fabales is a cosmopolitan angiosperm order which consists of four families, Leguminosae (Fabaceae), Polygalaceae, Surianaceae and Quillajaceae. Despite the great interest of botanists, a convincing phylogeny of the order is still not available because almost every phylogenetic study reveals a different scheme of relationships amongst families of the order. Therefore,...Aygoren Uluer, Deniz
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Doctoral thesis
Diversity and evolution of macrofungi of Madagascar.
Ralaiveloarisoa, Anna
Macrofungi, Madagascar, Diversity, and Evolution
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Global analysis of Poales diversification – parallel evolution in space and time into open and closed habitats.
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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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A Fossil Anthonotha (Leguminosae: Detarioideae: Amherstieae) Species from the Early Miocene (21.73 Ma) of Ethiopia.
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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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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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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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Taxonomic significance and evolution of homobaric and heterobaric leaves in Adesmia clade species (Leguminosae – Papilionoideae).
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Safeguarding Imperiled Biodiversity and Evolutionary Processes in the Wallacea Center of Endemism.
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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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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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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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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... -
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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Asteraceae as a model system for evolutionary studies: from fossils to genomes.
With c. 24 700 species (10% of all flowering plants), Asteraceae are one of the largest and most phenotypically diverse angiosperm families, with considerable economic and ecological importance. Asteraceae are distributed worldwide, from nearly polar latitudes all the way to the tropics, and occur across a diverse range of habitats...Palazzesi, Luis ; Pellicer, Jaume ; Barreda, Viviana D ; Loeuille, Benoît ; Mandel, Jennifer R …
Phylogenomics, Fossil record, Biogeography, Asteraceae, Evolution, Compositae, and Genome size
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Book chapter
Introduction.
Monro, Alexandre K.
Evolution, Classification, Taxonomy, Circumscription, Cryptic species, and Plant morphology
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Book
Cryptic Species : morphological stasis, circumscription, and hidden diversity.
Cryptic species are organisms which look identical, but which represent distinct evolutionary lineages. They are an emerging trend in organismal biology across all groups, from flatworms, insects, amphibians, primates, to vascular plants. This book critically evaluates the phenomenon of cryptic species and demonstrates how they can play a valuable role...Cambridge University Press
Classification, Circumscription, Taxonomy, Cryptic species, Plant morphology, and Evolution
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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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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,... -
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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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A Systematic Overview of the Floral Diversity in Myrteae (Myrtaceae).
With ca. 2500 species, Myrteae is the largest tribe of Myrtaceae and one of the most diverse groups of flowering plants in the tropical Americas. In light of recent systematics adjustments, the present study is a review and provides new insights into floral diversity and evolution in Myrteae. General aspects...Vasconcelos, Thais N. C. ; Prenner, Gerhard ; Lucas, Eve J.
Gynoecium, Evolution, Ontogeny, Perianth, Androecium, and Morphology
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Molecular phylogeny and evolutionary history of the Eurasiatic orchid genus Himantoglossum s.l. (Orchidaceae).
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The effect of polyploidy and hybridization on the evolution of floral colour in Nicotiana (Solanaceae).
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Pollen in water of unstable salinity: Evolution and function of dynamic apertures in monocot aquatics.
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Journal issue
Drivers of exceptional Neotropical biodiversity.
Linnean Society
Evolution, Biodiversity, and Neotropics
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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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Journal article
On islands, evolutionary but not functional originality is rare [PREPRINT].
Functionally and evolutionary original species are those whose traits or evolutionary history are shared by few others in a given set. These original species promote ecosystem multifunctionality, the ability to cope with an uncertain future, future benefits to society and therefore have a high conservation value. A potential signal of...Evolution, Extinction risks, Endemism, and Islands
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Climate shapes the seed germination niche of temperate flowering plants: a meta-analysis of European seed conservation data.
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Cortinarius ochrolamellatus (Agaricales, Basidiomycota): a new species in C. sect. Laeti, with comments on the origin of its European-Hyrcanian distribution.
Geographic distributions of mushroom-forming fungi usually remain elusive because of the scarcity of occurrence data. However, the increasing number of environmental and ectomycorrhizal (EcM) root tip DNA sequences deposited in public repositories provides a unique opportunity to expand our knowledge about fungal geographic distributions, even at the intercontinental scale. Here,... -
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Polyploidy in Cupressaceae: Discovery of a new naturally occurring tetraploid, Xanthocyparis vietnamensis.
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Phenotypic versus genotypic disparity in the Eurasian orchid genus Gymnadenia : exploring the limits of phylogeny reconstruction.
Bateman, Richard M.
Gymnadenia, In situ morphometrics, Transcriptome, RAD-seq, Internal transcribed spacer, Evolution, Morphology, Species circumscription, Speciation, and Phylogeny reconstruction
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Presentation
Evolution and functional ecology of the embryo to seed size ratio.
Continuous variation exists in the ratio of embryo to nutritive tissues of Angiosperms. Embryo to seed size ratio ranges from seeds dispersed with an embryo consisting of a clump of cells embedded in copious endosperm, e.g. several Ranunculaceae, to seeds containing only an embryo and no nutritive tissue, e.g. many...Vandelook, Filip ; Dickie, John B. ; Carta, Angelino
Evolution, Functional ecology, and Embryo to seed size ratio
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Journal article
Life Without Water.
Heyduk, Karolina ; Grace, Olwen M ; McKain, Michael R
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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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Nuclear–plastid discordance indicates past introgression in Epidendrum species (Laeliinae: Orchidaceae) with highly variable chromosome numbers.
Here we study a challenging group of karyotypically highly variable Epidendrum spp. using phylogenetic methods to help understand how hybridization/introgression contributes to karyotype evolution. We hypothesize that species with great chromosome number variation are a result of past hybridization/introgression. Conflicting topologies in trees constructed using separate plastid and nuclear datasets... -
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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... -
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The rise and fall of Neotropical biodiversity.
Antonelli, Alexandre
Conservation, Evolution, and Extinction
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Master's dissertation
Influence of repeat dynamics in angiosperm genome evolution.
Byrne, Conor
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Master's dissertation
Evolution of unique aloes on Madagascar.
Dee, Richard
Madagascar, Aloe, and Evolution
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Journal article
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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Patterns of transmission and horizontal gene transfer in the Dioscorea sansibarensis leaf symbiosis revealed by whole-genome sequencing.
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Other
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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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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Other
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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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
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Tales from the crypt: genome mining from fungarium specimens improves resolution of the mushroom tree of life.
Dentinger, Bryn T. M. ; Gaya, Ester ; O'Brien, Heath ; Suz, Laura M. ; Lachlan, Robert …
Phylogenetic informativeness, Orthologue, Agaricales, Evolution, Vouchers, and Phylogenomics
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Morphological diversity and evolution of Centrolepidaceae (Poales), a species-poor clade with diverse body plans and developmental patterns.
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Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants
Flowering plants (angiosperms) are the most diverse of all land plants, becoming abundant in the Cretaceous and achieving dominance in the Cenozoic. However, the exact timing of their origin remains a controversial topic, with molecular clocks generally placing their origin much further back in time than the oldest unequivocal fossils....Silvestro, Daniele ; Bacon, Christine D. ; Ding, Wenna ; Zhang, Qiuyue ; Donoghue, Philip C. J. …
Evolution, Computational biology and bioinformatics , and Plant sciences