The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern biodiversity

MJ Benton, P Wilf, H Sauquet - New Phytologist, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity today has the unusual property that 85% of plant and animal species live on
land rather than in the sea, and half of these live in tropical rainforests. An explosive boost to …

[HTML][HTML] Recognition of peat depositional environments in coal: A review

S Dai, A Bechtel, CF Eble, RM Flores, D French… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Peat depositional environments, the sites where and conditions under which peat
accumulates, significantly influence a resultant coal's physical properties, chemical …

Origin of angiosperms and the puzzle of the Jurassic gap

HT Li, TS Yi, LM Gao, PF Ma, T Zhang, JB Yang… - Nature plants, 2019 - nature.com
Angiosperms are by far the most species-rich clade of land plants, but their origin and early
evolutionary history remain poorly understood. We reconstructed angiosperm phylogeny …

A universal probe set for targeted sequencing of 353 nuclear genes from any flowering plant designed using k-medoids clustering

MG Johnson, L Pokorny, S Dodsworth… - Systematic …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Sequencing of target-enriched libraries is an efficient and cost-effective method for obtaining
DNA sequence data from hundreds of nuclear loci for phylogeny reconstruction. Much of the …

The delayed and geographically heterogeneous diversification of flowering plant families

S Ramírez-Barahona, H Sauquet… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Early Cretaceous (145–100 million years ago (Ma)) witnessed the rise of
flowering plants (angiosperms), which ultimately lead to profound changes in terrestrial plant …

[HTML][HTML] The ancestral flower of angiosperms and its early diversification

H Sauquet, M Von Balthazar, S Magallón… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Recent advances in molecular phylogenetics and a series of important palaeobotanical
discoveries have revolutionized our understanding of angiosperm diversification. Yet, the …

Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms

AR Zuntini, T Carruthers, O Maurin, PC Bailey… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Angiosperms are the cornerstone of most terrestrial ecosystems and human livelihoods,. A
robust understanding of angiosperm evolution is required to explain their rise to ecological …

How deep is the conflict between molecular and fossil evidence on the age of angiosperms?

M Coiro, JA Doyle, J Hilton - New Phytologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The timing of the origin of angiosperms is a hotly debated topic in plant evolution. Molecular
dating analyses that consistently retrieve pre‐Cretaceous ages for crown‐group …

Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants

D Silvestro, CD Bacon, W Ding, Q Zhang… - Nature ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Flowering plants (angiosperms) are the most diverse of all land plants, becoming abundant
in the Cretaceous and achieving dominance in the Cenozoic. However, the exact timing of …

Constraining uncertainty in the timescale of angiosperm evolution and the veracity of a Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution

J Barba‐Montoya, M Dos Reis, H Schneider… - New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Through the lens of the fossil record, angiosperm diversification precipitated a Cretaceous
Terrestrial Revolution (KTR) in which pollinators, herbivores and predators underwent …