A nuclear phylogenomic study of the angiosperm order Myrtales, exploring the potential and limitations of the universal Angiosperms353 probe set

O Maurin, A Anest, S Bellot, E Biffin… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Premise To further advance the understanding of the speciesrich, economically and
ecologically important angiosperm order Myrtales in the rosid clade, comprising nine …

Pollen preferences of stingless bees in the Amazon region and southern highlands of Ecuador by scanning electron microscopy and morphometry

JS Ocaña-Cabrera, J Liria, K Vizuete, C Cholota-Iza… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Stingless bees are effective pollinators of native tropical flora. Their environmental service
maintains flow of pollen through pollination, increase reproductive success and influence …

Deductive automated pollen classification in environmental samples via exploratory deep learning and imaging flow cytometry

CM Barnes, AL Power, DG Barber, RK Tennant… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Pollen and tracheophyte spores are ubiquitous environmental indicators at local and global
scales. Palynology is typically performed manually by microscopic analysis; a specialised …

Improving the taxonomy of fossil pollen using convolutional neural networks and superresolution microscopy

IC Romero, S Kong, CC Fowlkes… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Taxonomic resolution is a major challenge in palynology, largely limiting the ecological and
evolutionary interpretations possible with deep-time fossil pollen data. We present an …

Pollinator shifts, contingent evolution, and evolutionary constraint drive floral disparity in Salvia (Lamiaceae): Evidence from morphometrics and phylogenetic …

R Kriebel, B Drew, JG González-Gallegos, F Celep… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Switches in pollinators have been argued to be key drivers of floral evolution in
angiosperms. However, few studies have tested the relationship between floral shape …

Why does pollen morphology vary? Evolutionary dynamics and morphospace occupation in the largest angiosperm order (Asterales)

PE Jardine, L Palazzesi, MC Tellería… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Morphological diversity (disparity) is a key component of biodiversity and increasingly a
focus of botanical research. Despite the wide range of morphologies represented by pollen …

Parsing a plethora of pollen: the role of pollen size and shape in the evolution of Boraginaceae

M Noroozi, F Ghahremaninejad, D Bogler… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Pollen, the microgametophyte of seed plants, has an important role in plant reproduction
and, therefore, evolution. Pollen is variable in, for example, size, shape, aperture number; …

Structure and evolution of polysporangiate anthers in Melastomataceae

APS Caetano, M Reginato, R Goldenberg… - Perspectives in Plant …, 2020 - Elsevier
Polysporangiate anthers, ie, anthers bearing more than four sporangia, are an unusual
condition that has been reported in several angiosperm families, including …

Staying alive on an active volcano: 80 years population dynamics of Cytisus aeolicus (Fabaceae) from Stromboli (Aeolian Islands, Italy)

R Zaia, S Pasta, F Di Rita, VA Laudicina, PL Cascio… - Ecological …, 2020 - Springer
Cytisus aeolicus is a narrow endemic species restricted to the Aeolian archipelago (SE
Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy) and it is one of the most evolutionarily isolated plants in the …

A novel approach to study the morphology and chemistry of pollen in a phylogenetic context, applied to the halophytic taxon Nitraria L.(Nitrariaceae)

A Woutersen, PE Jardine, RG Bogotá-Angel, HX Zhang… - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Nitraria is a halophytic taxon (ie, adapted to saline environments) that belongs to the plant
family Nitrariaceae and is distributed from the Mediterranean, across Asia into the south …