[HTML][HTML] The Silurian–Devonian terrestrial revolution: Diversity patterns and sampling bias of the vascular plant macrofossil record

E Capel, CJ Cleal, J Xue, C Monnet, T Servais… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
During the mid-Palaeozoic, vascular land plants (ie, tracheophytes) underwent a great
radiation that triggered the development of the land biosphere–the so-called Silurian …

The origin and early evolution of vascular plant shoots and leaves

CJ Harrison, JL Morris - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The morphology of plant fossils from the Rhynie chert has generated longstanding questions
about vascular plant shoot and leaf evolution, for instance, which morphologies were …

A 4000-species dataset provides new insight into the evolution of ferns

W Testo, M Sundue - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2016 - Elsevier
Ferns are the second-most diverse lineage of vascular plants on Earth, yet the best-sampled
time-calibrated phylogeny of the group to date includes fewer than 5% of global diversity …

[图书][B] Plant roots: the hidden half

A Eshel, T Beeckman - 2013 - books.google.com
The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

[HTML][HTML] Bayesian analysis using a simple likelihood model outperforms parsimony for estimation of phylogeny from discrete morphological data

AM Wright, DM Hillis - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Despite the introduction of likelihood-based methods for estimating phylogenetic trees from
phenotypic data, parsimony remains the most widely-used optimality criterion for building …

Divergence time estimation using fossils as terminal taxa and the origins of Lissamphibia

RA Pyron - Systematic biology, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Were molecular data available for extinct taxa, questions regarding the origins of many
groups could be settled in short order. As this is not the case, various strategies have been …

Combining phylogenomics and fossils in higher-level squamate reptile phylogeny: molecular data change the placement of fossil taxa

JJ Wiens, CA Kuczynski, T Townsend… - Systematic …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Molecular data offer great potential to resolve the phylogeny of living taxa but can molecular
data improve our understanding of relationships of fossil taxa? Simulations suggest that this …

Towards a phylogenetic nomenclature of Tracheophyta

PD Cantino, JA Doyle, SW Graham, WS Judd… - Taxon, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenetic definitions are provided for the names of 53 clades of vascular plants.
Emphasis has been placed on well‐supported clades that are widely known to non …

[PDF][PDF] Fern classification

AR Smith, KM Pryer, E Schuettpelz, P Korall… - Biology and evolution …, 2008 - sites.duke.edu
Over the past 70 years, many fern classifications, nearly all based on morphology, most
explicitly or implicitly phylogenetic, have been proposed. The most complete and commonly …

[HTML][HTML] Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns

S Lehtonen, D Silvestro, DN Karger, C Scotese… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Combining palaeontological and neontological data offers a unique opportunity to
investigate the relative roles of biotic and abiotic controls of species diversification, and the …