The majority of variation in rates of molecular evolution among seed plants remains both
unexplored and unexplained. Although some attention has been given to flowering plants …

Inferring interfamilial relationships within the eudicot order Ericales has remained one of the
more recalcitrant problems in angiosperm phylogenetics, likely due to a rapid, ancient …

Comprising more than 25 000 species, the Sunflower Family (Compositae or Asteraceae) is
the largest family of flowering plants. Many of its lineages have experienced recent and …

A novel result of the current research is the development and implementation of a unique
functional phylogenomic approach that explores the genomic origins of seed plant …

Contributions from paleobotany, phylogenetics, genomics, developmental biology, and
developmental genetics have yielded tremendous insight into Darwin's “abominable …

We describe here the reconstruction of the genome of the most recent common ancestor
(MRCA) of modern monocots and eudicots, accounting for 95% of extant angiosperms, with …

Abstract Background and Aims Theaceae, with three tribes, nine genera and more than 200
species, are of great economic and ecological importance. Recent phylogenetic analyses …

An accurate reconstruction of the eukaryotic tree of life is essential to identify the innovations
underlying the diversity of microbial and macroscopic (eg, plants and animals) eukaryotes …

Until recently, it was believed that complex phylogenies might be extremely difficult to
reconstruct due to the phenomenal rate of increase in the number of possible phylogenies …

Premise Discordance between nuclear and organellar phylogenies (cytonuclear
discordance) is a well‐documented phenomenon at shallow evolutionary levels but has …