Founder takes all: density-dependent processes structure biodiversity

JM Waters, CI Fraser, GM Hewitt - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2013 - cell.com
Density-dependent processes play a key role in the spatial structuring of biodiversity.
Specifically, interrelated demographic processes, such as gene surfing, high-density …

Progress in Myrtaceae genetics and genomics: Eucalyptus as the pivotal genus

D Grattapaglia, RE Vaillancourt, M Shepherd… - Tree Genetics & …, 2012 - Springer
The status of genomics and genetics research in the Myrtaceae, a large family of
dicotyledonous woody plants, is reviewed with Eucalyptus as the focal genus. The family …

Fungal endophyte communities reflect environmental structuring across a Hawaiian landscape

NB Zimmerman, PM Vitousek - Proceedings of the National …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
We surveyed endophytic fungal communities in leaves of a single tree species
(Metrosideros polymorpha) across wide environmental gradients (500–5,500 mm of rain/y; …

Facilitating reforestation through the plant microbiome: perspectives from the phyllosphere

PE Busby, G Newcombe, AS Neat… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Tree planting and natural regeneration contribute to the ongoing effort to restore Earth's
forests. Our review addresses how the plant microbiome can enhance the survival of planted …

Ancestral polymorphisms shape the adaptive radiation of Metrosideros across the Hawaiian Islands

JY Choi, X Dai, O Alam, JZ Peng… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Some of the most spectacular adaptive radiations begin with founder populations on remote
islands. How genetically limited founder populations give rise to the striking phenotypic and …

Hawai 'i forest review: synthesizing the ecology, evolution, and conservation of a model system

KE Barton, A Westerband, R Ostertag, E Stacy… - Perspectives in Plant …, 2021 - Elsevier
As the most remote archipelago in the world, the Hawaiian Islands are home to a highly
endemic and disharmonic biota that has fascinated biologists for centuries. Forests are the …

Understanding the spectacular failure of DNA barcoding in willows (Salix): Does this result from a trans‐specific selective sweep?

DM Percy, GW Argus, QC Cronk, AJ Fazekas… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Willows (Salix: Salicaceae) form a major ecological component of Holarctic floras
and consequently are an obvious target for a DNA‐based identification system. We …

More introgression with less gene flow: chloroplast vs. mitochondrial DNA in the Picea asperata complex in China, and comparison with other Conifers

FK Du, RJ Petit, JQ Liu - Molecular Ecology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Recent work has suggested that rates of introgression should be inversely related to levels
of gene flow because introgressed populations cannot be 'rescued'by intraspecific gene flow …

Origins of the Hawaiian flora: Phylogenies and biogeography reveal patterns of long‐distance dispersal

JP Price, WL Wagner - Journal of systematics and evolution, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Botanists have long considered the origins of the Hawaiian flora in terms of long‐distance
dispersal from particular source areas. We extensively reviewed phylogenetic studies of the …

Phylogeny, divergence time and historical biogeography of Laetiporus (Basidiomycota, Polyporales)

J Song, BK Cui - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2017 - Springer
Background The aim of this study was to characterize the molecular relationship, origin and
historical biogeography of the species in important brown rot fungal genus Laetiporus from …