[HTML][HTML] Recognition of peat depositional environments in coal: A review

S Dai, A Bechtel, CF Eble, RM Flores, D French… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Peat depositional environments, the sites where and conditions under which peat
accumulates, significantly influence a resultant coal's physical properties, chemical …

How deep is the conflict between molecular and fossil evidence on the age of angiosperms?

M Coiro, JA Doyle, J Hilton - New Phytologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The timing of the origin of angiosperms is a hotly debated topic in plant evolution. Molecular
dating analyses that consistently retrieve pre‐Cretaceous ages for crown‐group …

Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles

C Cai, E Tihelka, M Giacomelli… - Royal Society …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Beetles constitute the most biodiverse animal order with over 380 000 described species
and possibly several million more yet unnamed. Recent phylogenomic studies have arrived …

Origin of angiosperms and the puzzle of the Jurassic gap

HT Li, TS Yi, LM Gao, PF Ma, T Zhang, JB Yang… - Nature plants, 2019 - nature.com
Angiosperms are by far the most species-rich clade of land plants, but their origin and early
evolutionary history remain poorly understood. We reconstructed angiosperm phylogeny …

Phylogenomics reveals the evolutionary timing and pattern of butterflies and moths

AY Kawahara, D Plotkin, M Espeland… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) are one of the major superradiations of insects,
comprising nearly 160,000 described extant species. As herbivores, pollinators, and prey …

A universal probe set for targeted sequencing of 353 nuclear genes from any flowering plant designed using k-medoids clustering

MG Johnson, L Pokorny, S Dodsworth… - Systematic …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Sequencing of target-enriched libraries is an efficient and cost-effective method for obtaining
DNA sequence data from hundreds of nuclear loci for phylogeny reconstruction. Much of the …

The delayed and geographically heterogeneous diversification of flowering plant families

S Ramírez-Barahona, H Sauquet… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Early Cretaceous (145–100 million years ago (Ma)) witnessed the rise of
flowering plants (angiosperms), which ultimately lead to profound changes in terrestrial plant …

Divergent evolutionary trajectories of bryophytes and tracheophytes from a complex common ancestor of land plants

BJ Harris, JW Clark, D Schrempf, GJ Szöllősi… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of plants and their colonization of land fundamentally transformed the terrestrial
environment. Here we elucidate the basis of this formative episode in Earth history through …

The evolution and genomic basis of beetle diversity

DD McKenna, S Shin, D Ahrens… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The order Coleoptera (beetles) is arguably the most speciose group of animals, but the
evolutionary history of beetles, including the impacts of plant feeding (herbivory) on beetle …

The rise of angiosperms pushed conifers to decline during global cooling

FL Condamine, D Silvestro… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Competition among species and entire clades can impact species diversification and
extinction, which can shape macroevolutionary patterns. The fossil record shows successive …