Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

TLP Couvreur, G Dauby, A Blach‐Overgaard… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

Phylogenetic evidence for pollinator-driven diversification of angiosperms

T Van der Niet, SD Johnson - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2012 - cell.com
Since Darwin, the diversity of flowers has been attributed to selection by pollinators.
Although pollinators commonly act as selective agents on floral traits, determining the extent …

Phylogenetic relationships in the order Cucurbitales and a new classification of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae)

H Schaefer, SS Renner - Taxon, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We analysed phylogenetic relationships in the order Cucurbitales using 14 DNA regions
from the three plant genomes: the mitochondrial nad1 b/c intron and matR gene, the nuclear …

Cucurbitaceae

H Schaefer, SS Renner - Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Sapindales …, 2010 - Springer
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Phylogeny and evolution of the Cucurbitaceae

SS Renner, H Schaefer - Genetics and genomics of Cucurbitaceae, 2017 - Springer
The Cucurbitaceae family contains about 1000 species in 96 genera. Representatives of all
genera (except the extinct Khmeriosicyos) and a large percentage of the species have been …

Trans‐Atlantic, trans‐Pacific and trans‐Indian Ocean dispersal in the small Gondwanan Laurales family Hernandiaceae

I Michalak, LB Zhang, SS Renner - Journal of Biogeography, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To investigate the historical biogeography of the pantropical flowering plant family
Hernandiaceae (Laurales), which today comprises 62 species in five genera. Location …

Historical biogeography of Caribbean plants revises regional paleogeography

J Roncal, ME Nieto-Blázquez, A Cardona… - … : Patterns and processes, 2020 - Springer
The Caribbean archipelago is the largest and most species rich insular system in the
Neotropics, yet the origins of this biodiversity hotspot are poorly understood. Four main …

Complex interactions underlie the correlated evolution of floral traits and their association with pollinators in a clade with diverse pollination systems

JP Rose, KJ Sytsma - Evolution, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Natural selection by pollinators is an important factor in the morphological diversity and
adaptive radiation of flowering plants. Selection by similar pollinators in unrelated plants …

[HTML][HTML] A molecular-dated phylogeny and biogeography of the monotypic legume genus Haplormosia, a missing African branch of the otherwise American-Australian …

D Cardoso, DJ Harris, JJ Wieringa… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2017 - Elsevier
A comprehensively sampled reassessment of the molecular phylogeny of the genistoid
legumes questions the traditional placement of Haplormosia, an African monotypic genus …

Post-Boreotropical dispersals explain the pantropical disjunction in Paederia (Rubiaceae)

ZL Nie, T Deng, Y Meng, H Sun, J Wen - Annals of botany, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Pantropical intercontinental disjunction is a common
biogeographical pattern in flowering plants exhibiting a discontinuous distribution primarily …