About 3 million years ago (Ma), the I sthmus of P anama joined the A mericas, forming a land bridge over which inhabitants of each A merica invaded the other—the G reat A merican B …
Abstract Aim The tomato family Solanaceae is distributed on all major continents except Antarctica and has its centre of diversity in South America. Its worldwide distribution …
Recent phylogenetic studies have revealed the major role played by the uplift of the Andes in the extraordinary diversification of the Neotropical flora. These studies, however, have …
A Cruaud, N Rønsted, B Chantarasuwan… - Systematic …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
It is thought that speciation in phytophagous insects is often due to colonization of novel host plants, because radiations of plant and insect lineages are typically asynchronous. Recent …
MJ Donoghue - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Phylogenetic studies are revealing that major ecological niches are more conserved through evolutionary history than expected, implying that adaptations to major climate changes have …
Although they are relative latecomers on the evolutionary scene, having emerged only 135? 170 million years ago, angiosperms—or flowering plants—are the most diverse and species …
P Fiaschi, JR Pirani - Journal of systematics and evolution, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular phylogenetic studies have become a major area of interest in plant systematics, and their impacts on historical biogeographic hypotheses are not to be disregarded. In …
Ecological and evolutionary processes influence community assembly at both local and regional scales. Adding a phylogenetic dimension to studies of species turnover allows tests …