The phylogeny and timescale of life are becoming better understood as the analysis of
genomic data from model organisms continues to grow. As a result, discoveries are being …

Geographical distributions of terrestrial or freshwater taxa that are broken up by oceans can
be explained by either oceanic dispersal or vicariance in the form of fragmentation of a …

The establishment of modern terrestrial life is indissociable from angiosperm evolution.
While available molecular clock estimates of angiosperm age range from the Paleozoic to …

Anthozoan cnidarians (corals and sea anemones) include some of the world's most
important foundation species, capable of building massive reef complexes that support …

• Premise of the study: It has been 8 years since the last comprehensive analysis of
divergence times across the angiosperms. Given recent methodological improvements in …

Polyploidy has long been recognized as a major force in angiosperm evolution. Recent
genomic investigations not only indicate that polyploidy is ubiquitous among angiosperms …

Rates of molecular evolution vary widely between lineages, but quantification of how rates
change has proven difficult. Recently proposed estimation procedures have mainly adopted …

Although Pentapetalae (comprising all core eudicots except Gunnerales) include≈ 70% of
all angiosperms, the origin of and relationships among the major lineages of this clade have …

Most flowering plants have been shown to be ancient polyploids that have undergone one
or more whole genome duplications early in their evolution. Furthermore, many different …

Although great progress has been made in clarifying deep-level angiosperm relationships,
several early nodes in the angiosperm branch of the Tree of Life have proved difficult to …