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

The Cambrian 'explosion'is widely regarded as one of the fulcrum points in the history of life,
yet its origins and causes remain deeply controversial. New data from the fossil record …

The establishment of modern terrestrial life is indissociable from angiosperm evolution.
While available molecular clock estimates of angiosperm age range from the Paleozoic to …

Absorptive root traits show remarkable cross‐species variation, but major root trait
dimensions across species have not been defined. We sampled first‐order roots and …

• Premise of the study: It has been 8 years since the last comprehensive analysis of
divergence times across the angiosperms. Given recent methodological improvements in …

Polyploidy has long been recognized as a major force in angiosperm evolution. Recent
genomic investigations not only indicate that polyploidy is ubiquitous among angiosperms …

Conifers are the predominant gymnosperm. The size and complexity of their genomes has
presented formidable technical challenges for whole-genome shotgun sequencing and …

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 …

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 …

Although temporal calibration is widely recognized as critical for obtaining accurate
divergence-time estimates using molecular dating methods, few studies have evaluated the …