Comparative biology requires a firm phylogenetic foundation to uncover and understand
patterns of diversification and evaluate hypotheses of the processes responsible for these …

Conservation of gene order in vertebrates is evident after hundreds of millions of years of
divergence,, but comparisons of the Arabidopsis thaliana sequence to partial gene orders of …

Angiosperms have dominated the Earth's vegetation since the mid-Cretaceous (90 million
years ago), providing much of our food, fibre, medicine and timber, yet their origin and early …

Dobzhansky stated that nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. A
close corollary, and the central theme of this paper, is that everything makes a lot more …

Angiosperms are the cornerstone of most terrestrial ecosystems and human livelihoods,. A
robust understanding of angiosperm evolution is required to explain their rise to ecological …

Angiosperms are the largest and most successful clade of land plants with> 250,000 species
distributed in nearly every terrestrial habitat. Many phylogenetic studies have been based on …

The notion of species as reproductively isolated units related through a bifurcating tree
implies that gene trees should generally agree with the species tree and that sister taxa …

The flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana is an important model system for identifying genes
and determining their functions. Here we report the analysis of the genomic sequence of …

Correlated gene arrangements among taxa provide a valuable framework for inference of
shared ancestry of genes and for the utilization of findings from model organisms to study …

SIR-Previous studies have demonstrated that immense molecular data sets are often
needed for accurate phylogenetic estimation. For instance, under some conditions of …