The systematic biology of the palm family (Arecaceae) is probably better known than that of
any other tropical plant family of comparable size. As a result, the palms are now regarded …

Premise of the Study Large phylogenies can help shed light on macroevolutionary patterns
that inform our understanding of fundamental processes that shape the tree of life. These …

Angiosperms (flowering plants) are by far the most diverse land plant group with over
300,000 species. The sudden appearance of diverse angiosperms in the fossil record was …

Background Over the past decade, phylogenomics has greatly advanced our knowledge of
angiosperm evolution. However, phylogenomic studies of large angiosperm families with …

Targeted enrichment and sequencing of hundreds of nuclear loci for phylogenetic
reconstruction is becoming an important tool for plant systematics and evolution …

Despite the promise that molecular data would provide a seemingly unlimited source of
independent characters, many plant phylogenetic studies are still based on only two …

The tribe Geonomateae is a widely distributed group of 103 species of Neotropical palms
which contains six ecologically important understory or subcanopy genera. Although it has …

Plastid DNA sequence data have been traditionally widely used in plant phylogenetics
because of the high copy number of plastids, their uniparental inheritance, and the blend of …

Targeted high-throughput sequencing using hybrid-enrichment offers a promising source of
data for inferring multiple, meaningfully resolved, independent gene trees suitable to …

Targeted capture of nuclear genes increasingly contributes to unravelling phylogenetic
relationships that hitherto remained unresolved because of limitations of traditional Sanger …