Colonization time on island settings: lessons from the Hawaiian and Canary Island floras

C García-Verdugo, J Caujapé-Castells… - Botanical Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Molecular dating offers a tool for inferring the time of divergence between two lineages. In
this study, we discuss how dated molecular reconstructions are informative of two different …

Dating early animal evolution using phylogenomic data

M Dohrmann, G Wörheide - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Information about the geological timeframe during which animals radiated into their
major subclades is crucial to understanding early animal ecology and evolution …

[HTML][HTML] A time-calibrated 'Tree of Life'of aquatic insects for knitting historical patterns of evolution and measuring extant phylogenetic biodiversity across the world

J García-Girón, C Múrria, MA Arnedo, N Bonada… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The extent to which the sequence and timing of important events on Earth have influenced
biological evolution through geological time is a matter of ongoing debate. In this context …

Phylogenomics suggests oxygen availability as a driving force in Thaumarchaeota evolution

M Ren, X Feng, Y Huang, H Wang, Z Hu… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) of the phylum Thaumarchaeota are widespread in
marine and terrestrial habitats, playing a major role in the global nitrogen cycle. However …

Horizontal gene transfer constrains the timing of methanogen evolution

JM Wolfe, GP Fournier - Nature ecology & evolution, 2018 - nature.com
Microbial methanogenesis may have been a major component of Earth's carbon cycle
during the Archaean eon, generating a methane greenhouse that increased global …

Simultaneous diversification of Polypodiales and angiosperms in the Mesozoic

XY Du, JM Lu, LB Zhang, J Wen, LY Kuo… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Comprising about 82% of the extant fern species diversity, Polypodiales are generally
believed to have diversified in the Late Cretaceous. We estimated the divergence times of …

Plant speciation in the Quaternary

JW Kadereit, RJ Abbott - Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Background There are conflicting views between palaeobotanists and plant systematists/
evolutionary biologists regarding the occurrence of plant speciation in the Quaternary …

Species delimitation, phylogenomics, and biogeography of Sulawesi flying lizards: a diversification history complicated by ancient hybridization, cryptic species, and …

JA Mcguire, X Huang, SB Reilly, DT Iskandar… - Systematic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The biota of Sulawesi is noted for its high degree of endemism and for its substantial levels
of in situ biological diversification. While the island's long period of isolation and dynamic …

Lifestyle transitions in fusarioid fungi are frequent and lack clear genomic signatures

R Hill, RJA Buggs, DT Vu, E Gaya - Molecular Biology and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The fungal genus Fusarium (Ascomycota) includes well-known plant pathogens
that are implicated in diseases worldwide, and many of which have been genome …

Both temperature fluctuations and East Asian monsoons have driven plant diversification in the karst ecosystems from southern China

H Kong, FL Condamine, AJ Harris, J Chen… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Karst ecosystems in southern China are species‐rich and have high levels of endemism, yet
little is known regarding the evolutionary processes responsible for the origin and …