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Rapid Diversification of a Species-Rich Genus of Neotropical Rain Forest Trees
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It is estimated that speciation was concentrated in the past 10 million years, with many species arising as recently as 2 million years ago, which coincides with the more recent major uplifts of the Andes, the bridging of the Isthmus of Panama, and Quaternary glacial cycles.
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A DNA barcode for land plants
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The 2-locus combination of rbcL+matK will provide a universal framework for the routine use of DNA sequence data to identify specimens and contribute toward the discovery of overlooked species of land plants.
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Patterns of molecular evolution and diversification in a biodiversity hotspot: the California Floristic Province
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It is shown that diversification and establishment of spatial genetic structure across six taxonomic groups coincide with the putative age of California's mountain ranges and aridification in the region, demonstrating the importance of geographical barriers and climatological events to species diversifying and the overall geographical structure of biodiversity.
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Historical biogeography of two cosmopolitan families of flowering plants: Annonaceae and Rhamnaceae.
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In both groups, long-distance dispersal appears to have played a more significant role in establishing modern patterns than had previously been assumed.
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Selecting barcoding loci for plants: evaluation of seven candidate loci with species‐level sampling in three divergent groups of land plants
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Evaluated the seven main candidate plastid regions in three divergent groups of land plants, no single locus showed high levels of universality and resolvability and when multiple loci were combined, fewer barcodes were shared among species.
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A proposal for a standardised protocol to barcode all land plants
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A proposal for a standardised protocol to barcode all land plants is presented in Taxon, 56, (2), 295-299.
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Molecular phylogenetics reveal multiple tertiary vicariance origins of the African rain forest trees
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Molecular phylogenetic dating analyses of this large pan-African clade of Annonaceae unravels an interesting pattern of diversification for rain forest restricted trees co-occurring in West/Central and East African rain forests.
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Páramo is the world's fastest evolving and coolest biodiversity hotspot
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It is demonstrated that average net diversification rates of Páramo plant lineages are faster than those of other reportedly fast evolving hotspots and that the faster evolving lineage are more likely to be found in P €ramos than the other hotspots.
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A phylogenetic analysis of Rhamnaceae using rbcL and trnL-F plastid DNA sequences.
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The plastid trees support the monophyly of the Rhamnaceae family and provide the basis for a new tribal classification, and three strongly supported clades are identified but morphological characters could not be found to underpin a formal taxonomic description of these three clades as subfamilies.
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Rapid and recent origin of species richness in the Cape flora of South Africa
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The results indicate that diversification began approximately 7–8 Myr ago, coincident with extensive aridification caused by changes in ocean currents, and shows that large continental bursts of speciation can occur rapidly over timescales comparable to those previously associated with oceanic island radiations.
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