Decades of research have illuminated the underlying ingredients that determine the scope
of evolutionary responses to climate change. The field of evolutionary biology therefore …

Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)–based methods are widely used to isolate DNA
from plant tissues, but the unique chemical composition of secondary metabolites among …

Understanding the origins of species richness patterns is a fundamental goal in ecology and
evolutionary biology. Much research has focused on explaining two kinds of species …

Lineage‐specific traits determine how plants interact with their surrounding environment.
Unrelated species may evolve similar phenotypic characteristics to tolerate, persist in, and …

Island faunas exhibit some of the most iconic examples where similar forms repeatedly
evolve within different islands. Yet, whether these deterministic evolutionary trajectories …

Structural color is poorly known in plants relative to animals. In fruits, only a handful of cases
have been described, including in Viburnum tinus where the blue color results from a …

Can knowledge about genome architecture inform biogeographic and phylogenetic
inference? Selection, drift, recombination, and gene flow interact to produce a genomic …

Aim High repeatability among assemblages of closely related but ecologically distinct
ecotypes implies predictability in evolution and assembly of communities. The conditions …

Biogeographic disjunction patterns, where multiple taxa are shared between isolated
geographic areas, represent excellent systems for investigating the historical assembly of …

A fundamental objective of evolutionary biology is to understand the origin of independently
evolving species. Phylogenetic studies of species radiations rarely are able to document …