Abstract Background and Scope The growth of experimental studies of crassulacean acid
metabolism (CAM) in diverse plant clades, coupled with recent advances in molecular …

Background Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) photosynthesis is a successful
adaptation that has evolved often in angiosperms, gymnosperms, ferns and lycophytes …

Biological radiations provide unique opportunities to understand the evolution of
biodiversity. One such radiation is the pepper plant family Piperaceae, an early-diverging …

Premise Many plastomes of autotrophic Piperales have been reported to date, describing a
variety of differences. Most studies focused only on a few species or a single genus, and …

Micronesian islands taxa show high endemism rates, but very little is known about their
biogeographical histories. The lack of systematic biogeography is mainly due to insufficient …

Biogeographers have often been puzzled by several unusual features in the Juan
Fernández Islands (JFI) biota. These include the very high endemism density, multiple …

Colonization, levels of speciation and vegetational metamorphosis during ontogeny of
oceanic islands over geological time are central evolutionary and biogeographic concerns …

With more than 2000 species, Piper is regarded as having high medicinal, cosmetic, and
edible value. There also remain some taxonomic and evolutionary uncertainties about the …

Dispersal is a fundamental mechanism for maintaining biodiversity, and long‐distance
dispersal (LDD) has attracted the interest of many researchers owing to its unusual …

Phylogenetic trees of Peperomia subg. Micropiper based on nuclear internal transcribed
spacer (ITS) and eight plastid DNA regions to evaluate the congruence of their topologies …