Forest tree genomics: 10 achievements from the past 10 years and future prospects

C Plomion, C Bastien, MB Bogeat-Triboulot… - Annals of Forest …, 2016 - Springer
Key message This review highlights some of the discoveries and applications made
possible by “omics” technologies over the last 10 years and provides perspectives for …

Inferring the past from the present phylogeographic structure of North American forest trees: seeing the forest for the genes

JP Jaramillo-Correa, J Beaulieu… - Canadian Journal of …, 2009 - cdnsciencepub.com
The study of past historical events that have led to ecological changes is a recurrent topic in
many disciplines. Given that many of these events have left a large and long-lasting …

Chloroplast DNA sequence utility for the lowest phylogenetic and phylogeographic inferences in angiosperms: the tortoise and the hare IV

J Shaw, HL Shafer, OR Leonard… - American Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Noncoding chloroplast DNA (NC‐cpDNA) sequences are the staple
data source of low‐level phylogeographic and phylogenetic studies of angiosperms. We …

Comparative phylogeographic analyses illustrate the complex evolutionary history of threatened cloud forests of northern Mesoamerica

JF Ornelas, V Sosa, DE Soltis, JM Daza, C González… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Comparative phylogeography can elucidate the influence of historical events on current
patterns of biodiversity and can identify patterns of co-vicariance among unrelated taxa that …

Forecasting cloud forest in eastern and southern Mexico: conservation insights under future climate change scenarios

OR Rojas-Soto, V Sosa, JF Ornelas - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2012 - Springer
Assuming that co-distributed species are exposed to similar environmental conditions,
ecological niche models (ENMs) of cloud forest species were developed to study how …

Phylogeography and climatic niche evolution in live oaks (Quercus series Virentes) from the tropics to the temperate zone

J Cavender‐Bares… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We investigated the phylogeography, geographical variation in leaf morphology,
freezing tolerance and climatic niches of two widespread evergreen sister oak species …

Molecular phylogeography and ecological niche modelling of a widespread herbaceous climber, Tetrastigma hemsleyanum (Vitaceae): insights into Plio–Pleistocene …

YH Wang, WM Jiang, HP Comes, FS Hu… - New …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Warm‐temperate evergreen (WTE) forest represents the typical vegetation type of
subtropical China, but how its component species responded to past environmental change …

Rate variation and estimation of divergence times using strict and relaxed clocks

RP Brown, Z Yang - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011 - Springer
Background Understanding causes of biological diversity may be greatly enhanced by
knowledge of divergence times. Strict and relaxed clock models are used in Bayesian …

The antiquity of Cyclocarya paliurus (Juglandaceae) provides new insights into the evolution of relict plants in subtropical China since the late Early Miocene

Y Kou, S Cheng, S Tian, B Li, D Fan… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The accumulation of supraspecific lineages in Asia has been linked to climatic changes
and tectonic events starting in the Miocene, but few studies have extended the intraspecific …

Geographical genetics and the conservation of forest trees

M Pautasso - Perspectives in plant ecology, Evolution and …, 2009 - Elsevier
Trees are key ecosystem engineers. Many analyses of the genetic diversity of forest trees
over substantial parts of their distributional ranges are appearing. These studies are of …