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Molecular phylogenetic evidence for the monophyly of Fritillaria and Lilium (Liliaceae; Liliales) and the infrageneric classification of Fritillaria.
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Phylogenetic relationships within Plantago (Plantaginaceae): evidence from nuclear ribosomal ITS and plastid trnL-F sequence data
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Phylogenetic analysis using maximum parsimony identified five major clades, corresponding to the taxonomic groups Plantago subgenera Plantago, Coronopus, Psyllium, Littorella and Bougueria, and the results are in general correlated with a morphological phylogenetic study and iridoid glucoside patterns.
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An Extreme Case of Plant–Insect Codiversification: Figs and Fig-Pollinating Wasps
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Biogeographic analyses indicate that the present-day distribution of fig and pollinator lineages is consistent with a Eurasian origin and subsequent dispersal, rather than with Gondwanan vicariance.
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60 million years of co-divergence in the fig–wasp symbiosis
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Molecular dating of ten pairs of interacting lineages provides an unparalleled example of plant–insect co-divergence over a geological time frame spanning at least 60 million years.
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Multigene Analyses of Monocot Relationships
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Analysis of supra-familial relationships of monocots based on a combined matrix of nuclear 18S and partial 26S rDNA, plastid atpB, matK, ndhF, and rbcL, and mitochondrial atpl DNA sequences provides higher bootstrap support for nearly all relationships than in previously published analyses.
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Reconstructing the phylogeny of figs (Ficus, Moraceae) to reveal the history of the fig pollination mutualism
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The utility of the single copy nuclear encoded glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene (G3PDh) for phylogeny reconstruction in Ficus is explored, and infrageneric relationships based on G3pdh DNA sequences in combination with the nuclear ribosomal internal and external transcribed spacers (ITS and ETS) are evaluated.
One Fig to Bind Them All: Host Conservatism in a Fig Wasp Community Unraveled by Cospeciation Analyses Among Pollinating and Nonpollinating Fig Wasps
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Cospeciation analyses between figs of section Galoglychia and some of their associated fig wasps show that, although host switches and duplication have evidently played a role in the construction of the current associations, the global picture is one of significant cospeciation throughout the evolution of these communities.
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Chemotaxonomy of Plantago. Iridoid glucosides and caffeoyl phenylethanoid glycosides.
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Estimating species diversity and distribution in the era of Big Data: to what extent can we trust public databases?
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Open databases and integrative bioinformatic tools allow a rapid approximation of large‐scale patterns of biodiversity across space and altitudinal ranges, and it is found that geographic inaccuracy affects diversity patterns more than taxonomic uncertainties.
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Evolutionary history and leaf succulence as explanations for medicinal use in aloes and the global popularity of Aloe vera
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Well-developed succulent leaf mesophyll tissue, an adaptive feature that likely contributed to the ecological success of the genus Aloe, is the main predictor for medicinal use among Aloe species, whereas evolutionary loss of succulence tends to be associated with losses of medicinal use.
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