Almost three decades ago Alec Jeffreys published his seminal Nature papers on the use of
minisatellite probes for DNA fingerprinting of humans (Jeffreys and colleagues Nature 1985 …

Ant–plant symbioses involve plants that provide hollow structures specialized for housing
ants and often food to ants. In return, the inhabiting ants protect plants against herbivores …

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 …

Background Triticeae, the tribe of wheat grasses, harbours the cereals barley, rye and wheat
and their wild relatives. Although economically important, relationships within the tribe are …

Abstract During the last 15–20 years, phylogenetic, phylogeographic, paleontological,
geological, and habitat modeling studies have improved our knowledge of Sundaic …

Phylogenetic hypotheses for the large cosmopolitan genus Hypericum (St. John's wort) have
previously been based on morphology, and molecular studies have thus far included only a …

Alocasia comprises over 113 species of rainforest understorey plants in Southeast Asia, the
Malesian region, and Australia. Several species, including giant taro, Alocasia macrorrhizos …

The Hordeum marinum species group consists of two annual grasses of western Eurasian
saline meadows or marshes. The two grasses split in the Quaternary about two million years …

Knowledge of the evolutionary history of plants that are ecologically dominant in modern
ecosystems is critical to understanding the historical development of those ecosystems …

Abstract South‐East Asia covers four of the world's biodiversity hotspots, showing high
species diversity and endemism. Owing to the successive expansion and contraction of …