High species diversity may result from recent rapid speciation in a 'cradle'and/or the gradual
accumulation and preservation of species over time in a 'museum',. China harbours nearly …

Angiosperms are the cornerstone of most terrestrial ecosystems and human livelihoods,. A
robust understanding of angiosperm evolution is required to explain their rise to ecological …

The exceptionally broad species diversity of vascular plant genera in east Asian temperate
forests, compared with their sister taxa in North America, has been attributed to the greater …

FLOWERING plants or angiosperms have dominated the Earth's flora since at least the late
Cretaceous1 and were already highly diversified by Barremian times, about 120 million …

An important issue in the study of biodiversity is the extent to which global patterns of
species richness reflect large-scale processes and historical contingencies,. Ecological …

The major diversification of flowering plants (angiosperms) in the Early Cretaceous, between
about 130 and 90 million years ago, initiated fundamental changes in terrestrial ecosystems …

Conservation of gene order in vertebrates is evident after hundreds of millions of years of
divergence,, but comparisons of the Arabidopsis thaliana sequence to partial gene orders of …

Green plants (Viridiplantae) include around 450,000–500,000 species, of great diversity and
have important roles in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Here, as part of the One …

The current molecular systematics of angiosperms recognizes the basal angiosperms and
five major angiosperm lineages: the Chloranthaceae, the magnoliids, the monocots …

Abstract The Early Cretaceous (145–100 million years ago (Ma)) witnessed the rise of
flowering plants (angiosperms), which ultimately lead to profound changes in terrestrial plant …