support from the SYNTHESYS Project(http://www.synthesys.info/),which is financed by the European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the FP7“Capacities”Program to J.E.C.O.,from an IAPT Research Grant to J.E.C.O.,the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst(DAAD project no.9169087o);J.E.C.0.and A.N.M.-R.,and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research(BMBF project no.16GWo12oK)to A.N.M.-R.Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
The general dynamic model(GDM)of oceanic island biogeography views oceanic islands predominantly as sinks rather than sources of dispersing lineages.To test this,we conducted a biogeographic analysis of a highly succe...
Carex section Ceratocystis(Cyperaceae)is a group of recently evolved plant species,in which hybridization is frequent,introgression is documented,taxonomy is complex,and morphological boundaries are vague.Within this ...
supported by the National Science and Engineering Research Council(NSERC)of Canada Discovery Grant to JRS(RGPIN 2018-04115),enabling a 6-week research stay at the Royal Botanic Gardens,Kew,covering part of the laboratory work and sequencing costs.
Molecular phylogenetic studies based on Sanger sequences have shown that Cyperaceae tribe Fuireneae s.l.is paraphyletic.However,taxonomic sampling in these studies has been poor,topologies have been inconsistent,and s...
Biodiversity is most commonly measured in taxonomiorichness.For example,it is common to describe how diverse a genus or a geographic area is by counting the number of species within them.Phylogenetic diversity (PD),a ...
We thank Yu-Fei Wang, Wen-Li Chen, and members of the Ge laboratory for their valuable discussions and suggestions. We also thank the International Rice Research Institute (Los Banos, Philippines) for providing seed samples of some Oryzeae species. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 91231201 and 3o990240) and the CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams.
Phytoliths, as one of the important sources of microfossils, have been widely used in paleobotany- related studies, especially in the grass family (Poaceae) where abundant phytoliths are found. Despite great efforts...
supported bygrants-in-aid from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 30625004, 40771073 to HSUN, and 30770167 to Z-L NIE);the Yunnan Natural Science Foundation (2008CC013 to HSUN);the National Science Foundation (DEB-0321846 to DEBOUFFORD)
Cytological characters of four species in Syncalathium (Asteraceae: Lactuceae), a small genus with six identified species endemic to alpine scree of the Sino-Himalayan region, are surveyed in this report. Three spe...