As a discipline, phylogenetics is becoming transformed by a flood of molecular data. These
data allow broad questions to be asked about the history of life, but also present difficult …

The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of the nuclear rDNA cistrons is one of the more
frequently utilized regions for phylogenetic analyses at the genus and species levels. It has …

Background Flowering plants (angiosperms) are dominant components of global terrestrial
ecosystems, but phylogenetic relationships at the familial level and above remain only …

• Premise of the study: Recent analyses employing up to five genes have provided
numerous insights into angiosperm phylogeny, but many relationships have remained …

Friedman WE, RC Moore, and MD Purugganan. 2004. The evolution of plant development.
Am. J. Bot. 91: 1726–1741. Friis EM, PR Crane, and KP Pedersen. 1997. Fossil history of …

Although Pentapetalae (comprising all core eudicots except Gunnerales) include≈ 70% of
all angiosperms, the origin of and relationships among the major lineages of this clade have …

• Premise: Bromeliaceae form a large, ecologically diverse family of angiosperms native to
the New World. We use a bromeliad phylogeny based on eight plastid regions to analyze …

During the 1990s, reconstruction of flowering plant phylogeny took a great step forward.
Rapidly accumulating DNA sequences, in particular from the plastid gene rbcL (eg Chase et …

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 …

Growing evidence of morphological diversity in angiosperm flowers, seeds and pollen from
the mid Cretaceous and the presence of derived lineages from increasingly older geological …