An increasing number of studies using genetic data at the generic and species levels reveal
complex patterns of relationships among populations and species. Incomplete lineage …

Phylogeographical inferences, applied in a comparative framework across multiple species
at a regional scale, provide the means for detecting regional and landscape-level patterns of …

Barcodes are short segments of DNA that can be used to uniquely identify an unknown
specimen to species, particularly when diagnostic morphological features are absent. These …

The phylogeny of eutherian mammals contains some of the most recalcitrant nodes in the
tetrapod tree of life. We combined comprehensive taxon and character sampling to explore …

The cereal grass barley was domesticated about 10,000 years before the present in the
Fertile Crescent and became a founder crop of Neolithic agriculture. Here we report the …

Crocus sativus, the saffron crocus, is the source of saffron, which is made from the dried
stigmas of the plant. It is a male-sterile triploid lineage that ever since its origin has been …

Divergence times and biogeographical analyses have been conducted within the Loliinae,
one of the largest subtribes of temperate grasses. New sequence data from representatives …

Although the subfamily Nepetoideae (Lamiaceae) is considered to be monophyletic,
relationships between tribes, subtribes and genera within the subfamily are poorly …

Crocus consists of about 100 species distributed from western Europe and northern Africa to
western China, with the center of diversity on the Balkan Peninsula and in Asia Minor. Our …

We examined the phylogenetic history of Linaria with special emphasis on the
Mediterranean sect. Supinae (44 species). We revealed extensive highly supported …