The greater diversity of plant clades in the Neotropics compared to their relatives in Africa is a pervasive pattern in biogeography. To better understand the causes of this imbalance, Alcantara and colleagues studied...
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Evolution of flower development during an adaptive radiation in Caiophora
The rare occurrence of a reversion to an ancestral state following adaptive radiations of pollination syndromes suggests that changes in the ancestral developmental programme of flowers are common in this scenario...
SPECIAL ISSUE: Island Plant Biology—Celebrating Carlquist’s Legacy
AoB PLANTS is pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue titled Island Plant Biology—Celebrating Carlquist’s Legacy, edited by Anna Traveset (Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies), Donald Drake...
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Anagenetic speciation in Acer okamotoanum
Anagenesis (also known as phyletic speciation), in which initial founder populations simply diverge through time without a branching event, is an important process of speciation in endemic species of oceanic islands...
