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 …

Living gymnosperms comprise only a little more than 1000 species, but represent four of the
five main lineages of seed plants, including cycads, ginkgos, gnetophytes and conifers. This …

Fabaceae are the third largest angiosperm family, with 765 genera and∼ 19 500 species.
They are important both economically and ecologically, and global Fabaceae crops are …

A fully updated guide to the increasingly prevalent use of molecular data in ecological
studies Molecular ecology is concerned with how molecular biology and population genetics …

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

The evolution of the ratite birds has been widely attributed to vicariant speciation, driven by
the Cretaceous breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana. The early isolation of Africa and …

Rutaceae is a family of angiosperms well known for the economically important genus
Citrus. The division of Rutaceae into subfamilies is still inadequate and provisional. Previous …

The eudicot order Malpighiales contains∼ 16000 species and is the most poorly resolved
large rosid clade. To clarify phylogenetic relationships in the order, we used maximum …

With genomic data, alignments can be assembled that greatly increase the number of
informative sites for analysis of molecular divergence dates. Here, we present an estimate of …

The Waipounamu Erosion Surface is a time-transgressive, nearly planar, wave-cut surface. It
is not a peneplain. Formation of the Waipounamu Erosion Surface began in Late …