Quaternary disappearance of tree taxa from Southern Europe: Timing and trends

D Magri, F Di Rita, J Aranbarri, W Fletcher… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
A hundred pollen and plant macrofossil records from the Iberian Peninsula, Southern
France, the Italian Peninsula, Greece and the Aegean, and the southwestern Black Sea area …

Review of the Cenozoic floras and vegetation of Greece

D Velitzelos, JM Bouchal, T Denk - Review of Palaeobotany and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Oligocene to Pleistocene floras of Greece are reviewed based on published and
unpublished material. Oldest plant-bearing sediments of Rupelian–Chattian age are …

Fossil-informed models reveal a boreotropical origin and divergent evolutionary trajectories in the walnut family (Juglandaceae)

Q Zhang, RH Ree, N Salamin, Y Xing… - Systematic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Temperate woody plants in the Northern Hemisphere have long been known to exhibit high
species richness in East Asia and North America and significantly lower diversity in Europe …

The oaks of western Eurasia: traditional classifications and evidence from two nuclear markers

T Denk, GW Grimm - Taxon, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenetic relationships among species of Quercus (oaks) from western Eurasia including
the western part of the Himalayas are examined for the first time. Based on ITS and 5S–IGS …

A Nuclear Ribosomal DNA Phylogeny of Acer Inferred with Maximum Likelihood, Splits Graphs, and Motif Analysis of 606 Sequences

GW Grimm, SS Renner, A Stamatakis… - Evolutionary …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
The multi-copy internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of nuclear ribosomal DNA is widely
used to infer phylogenetic relationships among closely related taxa. Here we use maximum …

ITS Evolution in Platanus (Platanaceae): Homoeologues, Pseudogenes and Ancient Hybridization

GW Grimm, T Denk - Annals of Botany, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Platanaceae is an old family of angiosperms extending back
to the Early Cretaceous but consisting of a single extant genus, Platanus. Species of …

First fossil record of Cedrelospermum (Ulmaceae) from the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau: Implications for morphological evolution and biogeography

LB Jia, T Su, YJ Huang, FX Wu… - … of Systematics and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Cedrelospermum Saporta is an extinct genus in the Ulmaceae with abundant fossil records
in North America and Europe. However, so far, fossil records of this genus from Asia are …

ITS Polymorphisms Shed Light on Hybrid Evolution in Apomictic Plants: A Case Study on the Ranunculus auricomus Complex

L Hodač, AP Scheben, D Hojsgaard, O Paun… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The reconstruction of reticulate evolutionary histories in plants is still a major methodological
challenge. Sequences of the ITS nrDNA are a popular marker to analyze hybrid …

The Pliocene flora of Frankfurt am Main, Germany: taxonomy, palaeoenvironments and biogeographic affinities

Z Kvaček, V Teodoridis, T Denk - Palaeobiodiversity and …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Pliocene flora of Frankfurt am Main described by Karl Mädler during the first
half of the twentieth century is a key flora for the European Pliocene. In the present study, we …

Inferring the biogeographic origins of inter‐continental disjunct endemics using a Bayes‐DIVA approach

AJ Harris, J Wen, QY XIANG - Journal of Systematics and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The arcto‐Tertiary relictual flora is comprised of many genera that occur non‐contiguously in
the temperate zones of eastern Asia, Europe, eastern North America, and western North …