New Zealand has long been a conundrum to biogeographers, possessing as it does
geophysical and biotic features characteristic of both an island and a continent. This schism …

In the past few decades, many investigations in the field of plant biology have employed
selectively neutral, multilocus, dominant markers such as inter‐simple sequence repeat …

The Australian fossil record shows that from ca. 25 Myr ago, the aseasonal–wet biome
(rainforest and wet heath) gave way to the unique Australian sclerophyll biomes dominated …

Taxa have been dated using three methods: equating their age with the age of the oldest
known fossil, with the age of strata the taxa are endemic to, and with the age of …

Abstract Islands of the Pacific Ocean have long fascinated evolutionists. Oceanic islands,
generally the products of volcanic activity, provide natural experiments as biological …

AFLP markers provide a potential source of phylogenetic information for molecular
systematic studies. However, there are properties of restriction fragment data that limit …

The infrageneric relationships and taxonomy of the largest fern genus, Asplenium
(Aspleniaceae), have remained poorly understood. Previous studies have focused mainly …

• Premise of the study: Dryopteris is a large, cosmopolitan fern genus ideal for addressing
questions about diversification, biogeography, hybridization, and polyploidy, which have …

A phylogeny for all extant species of the heterosporous fern genus Azolla is presented here
based on more than 5000 base pairs of DNA sequence data from six plastid loci (rbcL, atpB …

Intercontinental disjunctions in ferns have often been considered as the result of long-
distance dispersal (LDD) events rather than of vicariance. However, in many …