The time it took to accumulate key adaptations meant delays of tens of millions of years.
Tag - phylogenetics
Erin Zimmerman
Indeterminate Domain (IDD) proteins say something about a distant common ancestor of Streptophyta
The Indeterminate Domain (IDD) proteins are a plant specific subclass of C2H2 Zinc Finger transcription factors. Some of these transcription factors play roles in diverse aspects of plant metabolism and development...
Alex Assiry
RAD-seq and morphology clarify evolutionary relationships in Eurasian bee orchids
Eurasian bee orchids (Ophrys, Orchidaceae) have become the most popular model system for studying reproduction via insect-mediated pseudo-copulation and for exploring the consequent, putatively adaptive, evolutionary...
botanyone
Plastid phylogenomics of the cool-season grass subfamily: Clarification of relationships among early-diverging tribes
Whole plastid genomes (plastomes) are being sequenced rapidly from across the green plant tree of life, and phylogenetic analyses of these are increasing resolution and support for relationships that were unresolved in...
AoBPLANTS
Phylogenetic relationships in Epidendroideae (Orchidaceae)
Freudenstein and Chase analyse seven loci from 310 genera of epidendroids and find increased resolution and support for many groups.
Is Drosera meristocaulis the carnivorous plant that walked?
In the classic novel The Day of the Triffids carnivorous plants hunted a blinded human population. Drosera meristocaulis cannot walk, but that makes it even more peculiar because its not found where you’d expect...
Alun Salt
Molecular phylogenetics of Ruscaceae
Molecular phylogenetics of Ruscaceae Previous phylogenetics studies of the monocot order Asparagales, although extensive and generally well supported, have left several sets of taxa unclearly placed and have not...
