A community‐derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns

PPG I - Journal of systematics and evolution, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogeny has long informed pteridophyte classification. As our ability to infer evolutionary
trees has improved, classifications aimed at recognizing natural groups have become …

Single-molecule sequencing and optical mapping yields an improved genome of woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) with chromosome-scale contiguity

PP Edger, R VanBuren, M Colle, TJ Poorten… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Although draft genomes are available for most agronomically important plant
species, the majority are incomplete, highly fragmented, and often riddled with assembly …

A review of symbiotic fungal endophytes in lycophytes and ferns–a global phylogenetic and ecological perspective

M Lehnert, M Krug, M Kessler - Symbiosis, 2017 - Springer
We present a review of the documented fungal colonizations of presumably symbiotic nature
in lycophytes and ferns (“pteridophytes”). The sampling covers ca. 11%(1287 spp.) of the …

The separation of generations: biology and biogeography of long-lived sporophyteless fern gametophytes

JB Pinson, SM Chambers, JH Nitta… - … Journal of Plant …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Premise of research. Ferns (monilophytes) and lycophytes are unique among land plants in
having two independent life stages: the gametophyte generation, which is generally small …

The evolutionary history of ferns inferred from 25 low‐copy nuclear genes

CJ Rothfels, FW Li, EM Sigel, L Huiet… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Understanding fern (monilophyte) phylogeny and its evolutionary
timescale is critical for broad investigations of the evolution of land plants, and for providing …

Large-scale phylogenomic analysis resolves a backbone phylogeny in ferns

H Shen, D Jin, JP Shu, XL Zhou, M Lei, R Wei… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Ferns, originated about 360 million years ago, are the sister group of seed
plants. Despite the remarkable progress in our understanding of fern phylogeny, with …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A classification for Blechnaceae (Polypodiales: Polypodiopsida): New genera, resurrected names, and combinations

AL De Gasper, VADO Dittrich, AR SMITH, A Salino - Phytotaxa, 2016 - biotaxa.org
The fern family Blechnaceae, with about 250 species, has traditionally comprised one large
genus, Blechnum, plus seven to nine smaller genera, most with fewer than 10 species …

A global plastid phylogeny of the fern genus Asplenium (Aspleniaceae)

KW Xu, L Zhang, CJ Rothfels, AR Smith, R Viane… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The infrageneric relationships and taxonomy of the largest fern genus, Asplenium
(Aspleniaceae), have remained poorly understood. Previous studies have focused mainly …

Natural hybridization between genera that diverged from each other approximately 60 million years ago

CJ Rothfels, AK Johnson… - The American …, 2015 - journals.uchicago.edu
A fern from the French Pyrenees—× Cystocarpium roskamianum—is a recently formed
intergeneric hybrid between parental lineages that diverged from each other approximately …