supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad(MINECO)(grant no.PGC2018-101650-B-I00).
The sclerophyllous syndrome is characterized by well-defined traits(evergreen coriaceous leaves,inconspicuous flowers,and fleshy fruits).It has been hypothesized that lineages displaying the sclerophyllous syndrome sh...
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31570202).
Previous phylogenetic analyses found that the largest genus in the tribe Campanuleae,Campanula L.is polyphyletic.The genus is extremely intermingled,involving more than 50 genera,but no generic reappraisal has been at...
This work was supported by grants from National Key Research and Development Program(2017YFC0505203);National Natural Science Foundation of China(31590821,31700323,and 41771055);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2018CDDY-S02-SCU,SCU2019D013,and YJ201721).
Accurate species delimitation is fundamental to biodiversity conservation.The endangered spruce Picea brachytyla(Franch.)E.Pritz.was suggested to be polyphyletic based on a limited number of samples in previous studie...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(973 Project;Grant No.2013CB834100);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11474068);the support of the State Key Laboratory of Applied Surface Physics and the Department of Physics,Fudan University,China
We report an important but long-overlooked manifestation of low-resolution power of 16S rRNA sequence analysis at the species level, namely, in 16S rRNA-based phylogenetic trees polyphyletic placements of closely-rela...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41561005);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2017YFA0605201);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Education Agency(No.8870)
Species in the cyanobacterial genus Merismopedia are present in freshwaters at different trophic levels, with some species even as the components of cyanobacterial blooms. However, species diversity in this genus was ...
Potentilleae, one of 10 tribes of the Rosaceae, are mainly distributed in alpine regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The taxonomy of Potentilleae has been challenging due to extensive hybridization, polyploidization, ...
supported by the Estonian Science Agency(project IUT20-30);the European Regional Development Fund(Centre of Excellence EcolChange).
This study focuses on the genus Encoelia and the subfamily Encoelioideae in the morphologically and ecologically diverse Helotiales.The 28S and 18S rDNA as well as tef1,rpb1 and rpb2 were sequenced for 70 species.Phyl...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31071898,31111120437);the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars,State Education Ministry of China;the Key Laboratory of Mariculture(KLM),Ministry of Education,Ocean University of China,the Research Group Project(No.RGP-VPP-083);the King Saud University Deanship of Scientific Research
In this paper, we explore possible conflict between morphological and molecular interpretations of phylogenetic relationships within the well-known peritrichous genus Zoothamnium. On the basis of morphological evidenc...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 30770147);the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No. KSCX2-YW-R-135)
Chirita D. Don, a large genus in the subfamily Cyrtandroideae of Gesneriaceae, has been the subject of much debate whether it is a natural group or not. In addition, the highly heterogeneous Chirita has also been very...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 30121003 and 30228004);National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program No. 2007CB411600);Wong Kuan Chung Education Foundation of Hong Kong
Tectariaceae are a pantropical fern family of about 20 genera, among which 8 are distributed in China. The morphological distinctiveness of the family is widely recognized, yet relatively little systematic research ha...