… and molecular phylogenetic context of the angiosperms: contrasting the 'top-down'and 'bottom-up'approaches used to infer the likely characteristics of the first flowers

RM Bateman, J Hilton, PJ Rudall - Journal of Experimental …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… The flower remains ill-… the flower in delimiting the angiosperms. We advocate maintenance
of parallel, reciprocally illuminating programmes of morphological and molecular phylogeny

Integrating molecular phylogenetic and paleobotanical evidence on origin of the flower

JA Doyle - International Journal of Plant Sciences, 2008 - journals.uchicago.edu
… Reconstruction of the first flower and its origin—what the angiosperm flower and its component
phylogenetic methods, integrating results of both morphological and molecular analyses. …

Molecular phylogenetic dating of asterid flowering plants shows early Cretaceous diversification

K Bremer, elsemarie Friis, B Bremer - Systematic Biology, 2004 - academic.oup.com
… We present a phylogenetic dating of asterids, based on a 111-taxon tree representing all
major groups and orders and 83 of the 102 families of asterids, with an underlying data set …

Molecular phylogenetics and patterns of floral evolution in the Ericales

J Schönenberger, AA Anderberg… - International Journal of …, 2005 - journals.uchicago.edu
… to a fully resolved ericalean phylogeny. At the level of floral evolution, we demonstrate that
… a diplostemonous floral ground plan likely arose from haplostemonous flowers in Ericales, …

Molecular phylogeny and floral evolution of Penaeaceae, Oliniaceae, Rhynchocalycaceae, and Alzateaceae (Myrtales)

J Schönenberger, E Conti - American Journal of Botany, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… of floral development and … context of the molecular phylogeny to test competing hypotheses
of perianth organ homology in Penaeaceae and Oliniaceae. Our analyses show that flowers

A Review of Molecular Phylogenetic Studies of Rubiaceae1

B Bremer - Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 2009 - BioOne
… families of flowering plants with over 13,000 species. We have seen a tremendous increase
in our understanding of the phylogeny of the family through studies on molecular data during …

A molecular phylogeny of the vataireoid legumes underscores floral evolvability that is general to many early‐branching papilionoid lineages

D Cardoso, L Paganucci de Queiroz… - American Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… Although the four vataireoid genera harbor disparate floral morphologies, preliminary
molecular phylogenetic analyses focusing on the early-branching lineages of Papilionoideae …

Molecular phylogeny of Atripliceae (Chenopodioideae, Chenopodiaceae): Implications for systematics, biogeography, flower and fruit evolution, and the origin of C4 …

G Kadereit, EV Mavrodiev, EH Zacharias… - American Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… The resulting topologies and dated major splits allowed us to obtain the first … on molecular
evidence. With the aid of the molecular trees, we aim to understand the evolution of flower and …

Adaptive evolution of context-dependent style curvature in some species of the Malvaceae: a molecular phylogenetic approach

CJ Ruan, SC Chen, Q Li… - Plant Systematics and …, 2011 - Springer
… based on the phylogenetic tree of the Tribe Hibisceae (Koopman and Baum 2008) and
species with style curvature in this study, species evolved herkogamous flowers over 15 Ma, but …

Molecular phylogenetics and floral evolution of the Cirrhopetalum alliance (Bulbophyllum, Orchidaceae): evolutionary transitions and phylogenetic signal variation

AQ Hu, SW Gale, ZJ Liu, S Suddee, TC Hsu… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2020 - Elsevier
phylogenetic context. In the present study, we assess phylogenetic signal for selected floral
… that there is considerable phylogenetic signal variation among floral traits linked to functions …