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Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity

It is shown that Andean uplift was crucial for the evolution of Amazonian landscapes and ecosystems, and that current biodiversity patterns are rooted deep in the pre-Quaternary.
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Diversification of Neoaves: integration of molecular sequence data and fossils

The calibration results suggest that Neoaves, after an initial split from Galloanseres in Mid-Cretaceous, diversified around or soon after the K/T boundary, and show that there is no solid molecular evidence for an extensive pre-Tertiary radiation of Neoaves.
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Estimating divergence times in large phylogenetic trees.

A new method, PATHd8, for estimating ultrametric trees from trees with edge (branch) lengths proportional to the number of substitutions is proposed, which smoothes substitution rates locally, rather than simultaneously over the whole tree, thus allowing for analysis of very large trees.
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Dating phylogenetically basal eudicots using rbcL sequences and multiple fossil reference points.

A molecular dating of the phylogenetically basal eudicots has been performed using several fossils as minimum age constraints, and the results suggest a rapid diversification during the late Early Cretaceous, with all the lineages of basal Eudicots emerging during the latest part of the EarlyCretaceous.
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Contrasted patterns of hyperdiversification in Mediterranean hotspots

It is found that Proteaceae, a model plant group for the Mediterranean hotspots of the Southern Hemisphere with a very rich pollen fossil record, diversified under higher rates in the Cape Floristic Region and Southwest Australia than in any other area of their total distribution.
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Integration of molecules and new fossils supports a Triassic origin for Lepidosauria (lizards, snakes, and tuatara)

A Early/Middle Triassic date for the origin of Lepidosauria disagrees with previous estimates deep within the Permian and suggests the group evolved as part of the faunal recovery after the end-Permain mass extinction as the climate became more humid.
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Reconstructing the evolution and biogeographic history of tribe Cardueae (Compositae).

Most diversification events within Cardueae are related to the continuous cycles of area connection and division between the Anatolian microplate and the western Mediterranean Basin during the Oligocene-Miocene and with the uplift of the Himalayan range from the Miocene onward.
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Life, death and fossilization on Gran Canaria – implications for Macaronesian biogeography and molecular dating

The Canaries have recently served as a test‐bed island system for evaluating newly developed parametric biogeographical methods that can incorporate information from molecular phylogenetic dating and…
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Improving ITS sequence data for identification of plant pathogenic fungi

A concerted effort was reported on to identify high-quality reference sequences for various plant pathogenic fungi and to re-annotate incorrectly or insufficiently annotated public ITS sequences from these fungal lineages, to enrich the sequences with geographical and ecological metadata.
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Using fossils and molecular data to reveal the origins of the Cape proteas (subfamily Proteoideae).

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