The field of systematic biology has been revitalized and transformed during the last few
decades by the confluence of phylogenetic thinking with ready access to the tools of …

A diverse array of molecular approaches is now available to the plant systematist for use in
phylogenetic inference, including restriction site analysis, comparative sequencing, analysis …

Numerous DNA regions representing the nuclear and both organellar genomes are now
available for comparative sequencing in plants (see Chapter 1); in addition, morphological …

A recent survey by Alvarez & Wendel (2003) revealed that during a five-year period over
65% of all molecular phylogenetic studies of plants at the generic level or lower included …

Reconstruction of phylogenies from molecular data has become an important and
increasingly common approach in systematics. The product of such studies is a gene tree …

During the past decade, the tools of molecular biology have been applied to plant
systematics with remarkable success. New insights have been gained into such topics as …

The rapidly growing fields of molecular evolution and systematics have much to offer to
molecular biology, but like any field have their own repertoire of terms and concepts …

Next‐generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized molecular systematics as well as
population and conservation genetics. It is now possible to obtain enormous amounts of …

The aim of this paper is to enable those who have never reconstructed a phylogeny to do so
from scratch. The paper does not attempt to be a comprehensive theoretical guide, but …

In the five years since the publication of Molecular Systematics of Plants, the field of
molecular systematics has advanced at an astonishing pace. This period has been marked …