Where Have All The Good Men Gone? Don’t Despair – Make Some Yourself (That’s What Plants Do..)
Observed rates of evolution in the experiment were among the highest yet recorded.
Category: Taxonomy & Evolution
Variation between alpine and coastal populations of Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Can changes in ploidy level explain why certain Arctic and alpine species are able to survive at lower latitudes and elevations?
Estimates of leaf size set to get closer to reality
A one-size-fits-all estimate of leaf area has drawbacks if not all your leaves are the same shape.
Carex angustisquama‘s extreme life style keeps it a distinct species
It’s the hostile habitat that keeps these Carex plants together as a species.
Studying plant remains at the entrance and the exit of a chimpanzee
A chimp’s diet can be studied through microscopic opals.
Tropical islands lead to more diversity in Palm sexual reproduction
Isolation and sexual adaptability contributed to the evolution of thousands of palm species.
Historical migration and taxonomy of the Korean endemic shrub Lespedeza maritima
Jin et al. use molecular analyses and morphological examination to understand the evolutionary divergence and establishment patterns of a Korean endemic shrub.
Pink monkeyflowers are a sign of local adaptation
Botanists find petal colour can signal a monkeyflower’s drought tolerance.
Newly discovered fossils illuminate a family’s 64 million year development
The fossils highlight the importance of West Gondwana in the evolution of Cunoniaceae.
Parasitic plants and other botanical “misfits”
Taking a look inside these botanical rebels offers new information to better understand them.
Species delimitation and hybridization history of a hazel species complex
The study combines genetic and physical data to define four groups of hazel plants.
Extra blue-light receptors helped ferns thrive in early angiosperm forests
Leptosporangiate ferns have three times more cryptochrome receptors than their nearest relatives.
Hybridisation of native and foreign Sorbus trees in the Polish Carpathian mountains
Sorbus is a highly diverse tree genus but is this the result of hybridisation and introgression between native and foreign species?
A new high-throughput method for building large phylogenies from herbarium samples
Herbaria are an under-used resource for large phylogenies.