This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31670216,31700184,31900194,and 41972023);the Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31590820 and 31590823);the State Key Laboratory,of Palaeobiology and,Stratigraphy,Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology(CAs)(Grant Nos.163108 and 183132)。
The Hengduan Mountains region(HMR)on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau,supports a high diversity of herbs,particularly in its subalpine to alpine ecosystems,due to high altitude and cool temperate climate.Current under...
Plant fossils from the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP), China are critical to understand not only the diversification history of plants there, but also the paleoenvironmental conditions. Alnus are deciduous trees, main...
The subfamily Rosoideae Focke (Rosaceae) has a good fossil record in the Northern Hemisphere, but these fossil records are confined mainly to a few genera, whereas the majority, in particular those with herbaceous mem...
supported by a 973 grant (no. 2007CB411601);the Chinese Academy of Sciences (grant no. KSCX2-YW-R-136);a Chinese post-doctorate grant (no. 20080431286);a grant from the Key Laboratory, Kunming Institute of Botany(no. 086341121)
The phylogeny of extant Menispermaceae (Ranunculales) is reconstructed based on DNA sequences of two chloroplast genes (rbcL and atpB) from 94 species belonging to 56 genera. Fossilized endocarps represent 34 gene...
the NSF DeepTime Research Collaboration Network (RCN0090283) for facilitating collaboration
Over the past 25 years, discoveries of Early Cretaceous fossil flowers, often associated with pollen and sometimes with vegetative parts, have revolutionized our understanding of the morphology and diversity of early ...
a National Science Foundation (USA) grant made to Xiang(DEB-0444125);supported by a NSF grant funded to D.E.Soltis (DEB-0090283)
We propose a simple statistical approach for using Dispersal-Vicariance Analysis (DIVA) software to infer biogeographic histories without fully bifurcating trees. In this approach, ancestral ranges are first optimiz...
NERC (fellowship NE/B500658/1) for the financial support that made this work possible
A universal method of molecular dating that can be applied to all families and genera regardless of their fossil records, or lack thereof, is highly desirable. A possible method for eudicots is to use a large phylogen...