Angiosperms are the cornerstone of most terrestrial ecosystems and human livelihoods,. A
robust understanding of angiosperm evolution is required to explain their rise to ecological …

Mountains are among the most biodiverse places on Earth, and plant lineages that inhabit
them have some of the highest speciation rates ever recorded. Plant diversity within the …

As phylogenomic datasets have grown in size, researchers have developed new ways to
measure biological variation and to assess statistical support for specific branches. Larger …

Summary Grasses (Poaceae) comprise c. 11 800 species and are central to human
livelihoods and terrestrial ecosystems. Knowing their relationships and evolutionary history …

Genomic data have become ubiquitous in phylogenomic studies, including divergence time
estimation, but provide new challenges. These challenges include, among others, biological …

Xenacoelomorpha are mostly microscopic, morphologically simple worms, lacking many
structures typical of other bilaterians. Xenacoelomorphs—which include three main groups …

Low-coverage sequencing in plants allows whole plastomes to be obtained that can be
used to investigate phylogenetic relationships among groups. The genus Orchis (c. 20 …

Simple Summary The Sox gene family is a set of specific transcriptional factor (TF) proteins,
with a very similar sequence compared to the sex-determining region Y (SRY), related high …

Much of our understanding of the history of life hinges upon time calibration, the process of
assigning absolute times to cladogenetic events. Bayesian approaches to time‐scaling …

Imbalance in species richness among related clades is a pervasive, yet incompletely
understood feature of biodiversity. Comparison of species-poor and species-rich clades that …