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2020
Journal article
Extensive plastid-nuclear discordance in a recent radiation of Nicotiana section Suaveolentes (Solanaceae)
Nicotiana section Suaveolentes is the largest section of Nicotiana and is a monophyletic group of allotetraploid species. Most of the species are endemic to Australia, but three species occur on islands in the South Pacific as far east as French Polynesia and one species is native to Namibia. Here, we... -
2020
Journal article
Savanna tree evolutionary ages inform the reconstruction of the paleoenvironment of our hominin ancestors.
Ideas on hominin evolution have long invoked the emergence from forests into open habitats as generating selection for traits such as bipedalism and dietary shifts. Though controversial, the savanna hypothesis continues to motivate research into the palaeo-environments of Africa. Reconstruction of these ancient environments has depended heavily on carbon isotopic... -
2017
Journal article
Geographic barriers and Pleistocene climate change shaped patterns of genetic variation in the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot.
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2021
Journal article
Phylogenetic placement of Cailliella praerupticola (Melastomataceae), a rare, monospecific lineage from Guinea, West Africa.
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2021
Journal article
Phylogenomics of Brosimum (Moraceae) and allied genera, including a revised subgeneric system.
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2016
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2017
Master's dissertation
Phylogenetics and phylogeography of blue Entoloma.
Elsey, Jacob
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2017
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2021
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2021
Journal article
Justicieae II: Resolved Placement of Many Genera and Recognition of a New Lineage Sister to Isoglossinae.
We present phylogenetic results for Justicieae, the largest of the major lineages of Acanthaceae. With 300% more sequence data and a similarly increased but also more geographically representative taxon sample compared to the only previous study of the lineage as a whole, we confirm the existence of the Pseuderanthemum Lineage,...McDade, Lucinda A. ; Kiel, Carrie A. ; Daniel, Thomas F. ; Darbyshire, Iain
Lineages, Phylogenetics, Sequence data, Justicieae, Acanthaceae, Pollen morphology, Asia, and Madagascar
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2021
Journal article
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
Journal article
Plastid phylogenomics of Pleurothallidinae (Orchidaceae): Conservative plastomes, new variable markers, and comparative analyses of plastid, nuclear, and mitochondrial data.
We present the first comparative plastome study of Pleurothallidinae with analyses of structural and molecular characteristics and identification of the ten most-variable regions to be incorporated in future phylogenetic studies. We sequenced complete plastomes of eight species in the subtribe and compared phylogenetic results of these to parallel analyses of... -
2022
Journal article
Advances and perspectives on the evolutionary history and diversification of Neotropical Myrteae (Myrtaceae).
Myrtaceae are one of the largest families of flowering plants and are widely distributed in the Neotropics, where they are mainly represented by the tribe Myrteae. Myrteae are the most species-rich tribe of Myrtaceae and include groups with significant ecological and economic importance. Myrteae are considered to be a model...Phylogenetics, Species diversity, Evolutionary trends, Systematics, Neotropics, and South America
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2022
Journal article
“Manisa bozaka” or “Counting grass”: Global Grassy Group guide to understanding and measuring the functional and taxonomic composition of ground layer plants.
Grassy biomes span more than 40% of the global land surface and are central to people, biodiversity and Earth System functioning. There is however limited standardised measurement of herbaceous taxonomic and functional composition in grassy biomes that inhibits the development of a comparative understanding of grassy biomes among geographic regions.... -
2014
Journal article
Pollinator shifts as triggers of speciation in painted petal irises (Lapeirousia: Iridaceae).
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2021
Journal article
A chromosome-level genome of a Kordofan melon illuminates the origin of domesticated watermelons.
Wild progenitors of crops are important resources for breeding and for understanding domestication, but identifying them is difficult. Using an integrative approach, we discovered that a Sudanese form of melon with nonbitter whitish pulp, known as the Kordofan melon, is the closest relative of domesticated watermelons and a possible progenitor.... -
2022
Journal article
A First Complete Phylogenomic Hypothesis for Diploid Blueberries (Vaccinium section Cyanococcus).
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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
Tribe Shoreae (Dipterocarpaceae subfamily Dipterocarpoideae) Finally Dissected.
The dipterocarp tribe Shoreae, perhaps more than any other members of this elegant family of often giant emergent trees, is familiar to all who visit the once ubiquitous lowland forests of tropical Asia. Timbers of the genus comprised the bulk of hardwood traded on international markets for thirty years, since...Ashton, P. S. ; Heckenhauer, J.
Conservation, Phylogenetics, Shorea, Nomenclature, Taxonomy, and Asia
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2022
Journal article
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... -
2013
Journal article
Utilizing a phylogenetic plant classification for systematic arrangements in botanic gardens and herbaria.
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2022
Journal article
The origin of modern patterns of continental diversity in Mauritiinae palms: the Neotropical museum and the Afrotropical graveyard.
While the latitudinal diversity gradient has received much attention, biodiversity and species richness also vary between continents across similar latitudes. Fossil information can be used to understand the evolutionary mechanisms that generated such variation between continents of similar latitudes. We integrated fossil data into a phylogenetic analysis of the Mauritiinae... -
2022
Journal article
Palynology of Amicia Kunth. (Leguminosae – Papilionoideae – Dalbergieae – Informal Adesmia clade) set in a systematic and phylogenetic context.
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2013
Book
Early Events in Monocot Evolution.
Tracing the evolution of one of the most ancient major branches of flowering plants, this is a wide-ranging survey of state-of-the-art research on the early clades of the monocot phylogenetic tree. It explores a series of broad but linked themes, providing for the first time a detailed and coherent view...Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Monocotyledoneae, Evolution (Biology), Evolutionary genetics, Angiospermae, Taxonomy, and Phylogenetics
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2023
Journal article
Landscape dynamics and diversification of the megadiverse South American freshwater fish fauna.
Landscape dynamics are widely thought to govern the tempo and mode of continental radiations, yet the effects of river network rearrangements on dispersal and lineage diversification remain poorly understood. We integrated an unprecedented occurrence dataset of 4,967 species with a newly compiled, time-calibrated phylogeny of South American freshwater fishes—the most... -
2023
Journal article
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... -
2023
Journal article
Barking up the wrong tree: the dangers of taxonomic misidentification in molecular phylogenetic studies.
– is a Brazilian endemic genus that has sat uncomfortably in Convolvulaceae where it was placed due to an enlarged and adnate fruit bract typical of . A recent molecular phylogeny suggested that two of its five morphologically almost identical species actually belong to two different families, Malpighiaceae (superrosids) and... -
2006
Book chapter
Phylogenetics and conservation.
Forest, F.
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2023
Journal article
DNA‐based fungal diversity in Madagascar and arrival of the ectomycorrhizal fungi to the island.
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2023
Journal article
Herbarium specimen sequencing allows precise dating of Xanthomonas citri pv. citri diversification history.
Herbarium collections are an important source of dated, identified and preserved DNA, whose use in comparative genomics and phylogeography can shed light on the emergence and evolutionary history of plant pathogens. Here, we reconstruct 13 historical genomes of the bacterial crop pathogen pv. ( ) from infected herbarium specimens. Following... -
2023
Journal article
East Asian-North American disjunctions and phylogenetic relationships within subtribe Nepetinae (Lamiaceae).
Rose, Jeffrey P. ; Wiese, Joshua ; Pauley, Nicole ; Dirmenci, Tuncay ; Celep, Ferhat …
Acrto-Teritary Flora, Vicariance, Disjunction, Labiatae, Nepetinae, Lamiaceae, and Phylogenetics
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2023
Journal article
Evolutionary history, traits, and weediness in Digitaria (Poaceae: Panicoideae).
Digitaria is a large pantropical genus, which includes a number of economically problematic agricultural weeds. Difficulties in species identification and the circumscription of the genus have previously hindered progress in understanding its evolution and developing a stable classification. We investigate the evolutionary history of Digitaria by combining two approaches: (i)... -
2016
Journal article
Phylogenetic Analysis and Taxonomic Delimitation of the “Hairy-Fig” Complex of Ficus sect. Eriosycea (Moraceae) in China.
The hairy-fig complex of Ficus sect. Eriosycea (Moraceae) includes F. hirta, F. esquiroliana, F. simplicissima and a Chinese entity misidentified as F. fulva. These species are difficult to delimit because of the continuously varying morphological characteristics. In order to re-evaluate the status of these taxa, herbarium specimens were extensively examined...Lu, Jing ; Gui, Ping ; Lu, Zhong-Ling ; Zhang, Li-Fang ; Tian, Huai-Zhen …
Ficus sect. Eriosycea, Phylogenetics, Ficus simplicissima, Nomenclature, and Taxonomy
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2015
Journal article
Toward a Phylogenetic-based Generic Classification of Neotropical Lecythidaceae—II. Status of Allantoma, Cariniana, Couratari, Couroupita, Grias and Gustavia.
The morphological features of all clades of neotropical Lecythidaceae subfam. Lecythidoideae (Brazil nut family) with actinomorphic androecia (Allantoma, Grias, Gustavia) as well as three clades with zygomorphic androecia (Cariniana, Couroupita, and Couratari) are described. These clades are those that were recovered by a phylogeny based on molecular data, and all,... -
2015
Journal article
Suillus marginielevatus, a new species and S. triacicularis, a new record from Western Himalaya, Pakistan.
Suillus marginielevatus sp. nov. and S. triacicularis are reported from Himalayan moist temperate forests of Pakistan in association with conifers. Morphologically S. marginielevatus is close to S. sibiricus, S. granulatus and S. intermedius but it can be distinguished by uplifted pileus margin and curved stipe with no ring at all...Sarwar, Samina ; Saba, Malka ; Khalid, Abdul N. ; Dentinger, Bryn T. M.
Suillus marginielevatus, Pakistan, Suillus triacicularis, Phylogenetics, New species, and New records
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2011
Journal article
Updating Malesian Icacinaceae.
Utteridge, T. M. A. ; Schori, M.
New genus, Taxonomy, Icacinaceae, Phylogenetics, New species, and Malesia
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2023
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2023
Master's dissertation
Non-pathogenic Fungi Among Killer Ophiocordyceps: Phylogenetic Investigation Into Yeast-Like Endosymbionts of Coccid (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha) Species.
Bonser, Tom
Coccids, Scale insects, Ophiocordyceps, Endosymbionts, Phylogenetics, Non-pathogenic fungi, Yeast-like symbionts, and Symbiosis
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2025
Doctoral thesis
Taxonomy, evolutionary history, and ecological dominance of Themeda and Heteropogon.
Heteropogon and Themeda grasses are common and significant components of the C4 savannas which have recently gained more attention for conservation and biodiversity research. The two genera have been the subject of ecological research due to their widespread and dominant species H. contortus and T. themeda. Like many tropical plant...Arthan, Watchara
Phylogenetics, Evolutionary history, Ecological dominance, Heteropogon, Taxonomy, C4 savannas, Functional traits, and Themeda
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2021
Doctoral thesis
Taxonomy and systematics of Urophyllum (Rubiaceae) in Thailand and Indochina.
The genus Urophyllum Wall. is a taxonomically problematic genus of Rubiaceae in Thailand due to the lack of a recent taxonomic revision and identification key to the species. This has led to confusion in the identification of species and no conservation status assessments for the genus. The aim of this...Yooprasert, Sawita
Indochina, Urophyllum, Taxonomy, Morphometrics, Plant morphology, Thailand, Systematics, and Phylogenetics
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2019
Doctoral thesis
Phylogenetics and characterisation of Lamiaceae tribe Ocimeae, subtribe Ociminae.
Phylogenetic analyses of the subtribe Ociminae (Lamiaceae) based on four plastid DNA regions (trnL–trnF intergenic spacer, trnH-psbA intergenic spacer, matK and rps16 intron) and two nuclear DNA regions (ITS and ETS) are presented. Bayesian inference was utilized for the reconstruction of phylogenies and for the assessment of statistical support for...Althobaiti, Ashwaq T.
Characterisation, Phylogenetics, Ociminae, Lamiaceae, and Ocimeae
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2018
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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2017
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2024
Journal article
Repeated upslope biome shifts in Saxifraga during late-Cenozoic climate cooling.
Mountains are among the most biodiverse places on Earth, and plant lineages that inhabit them have some of the highest speciation rates ever recorded. Plant diversity within the alpine zone - the elevation above which trees cannot grow—contributes significantly to overall diversity within mountain systems, but the origins of alpine... -
2014
Doctoral thesis
Phylogenetics, genome size evolution and population genetics of slipper orchids in the subfamily Cypripedioideae (Orchidaceae).
Slipper orchids (subfamily Cypripedioideae) comprise five genera; Paphiopedilum, Cypripedium, Phragmipedium, Selenipedium, and Mexipedium. Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Paphiopedilum, were studied using nuclear ribosomal ITS and plastid sequence data. The results confirm that Paphiopedilum is monophyletic and support the division of the genus into three subgenera Parvisepalum, Brachypetalum and Paphiopedilum....Chochai, Araya
Genome size evolution, Orchids, Phylogenetics, Population genetics, Slipper orchids, Cypripedioideae, and Orchidaceae
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2017
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2024
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2024
Journal article
Blocking then stinging as a case of two-step evolution of defensive cage architectures in herbivore-driven ecosystems.
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2024
Journal article
DNA barcoding of the genus Verbascum (Scrophulariaceae) in the Arabian Peninsula.
and are members of the family Scrophulariaceae. The first genus comprises approximately 360 species from almost all parts of the world, while the second contains a total of 8 species from tropical Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Since 1977, the relationships between and continue to be contested. The present study...Alzahrani, Ali Mohammed ; Magos Brehm, Joana ; Ghazanfar, Shahina A. ; Maxted, Nigel
DNA barcoding, Phylogenetics, Arabian Peninsula, Verbascum, and Rhabdotosperma
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2024
Journal article
Author Correction: Blocking then stinging as a case of two-step evolution of defensive cage architectures in herbivore-driven ecosystems.