The Sino-Japanese Floristic Region (SJFR) of East Asia harbors the most diverse of the
world's temperate flora, and was the most important glacial refuge for its Tertiary …

Sky islands are high-elevation areas in continental mountain ranges, which are
geographically isolated. We adopted this concept for the mountains in southwest China …

Brassicaceae is an important family at both the agronomic and scientific level. The family not
only inlcudes several model species, but it is also becoming an evolutionary model at the …

Aim Rain forest‐restricted plant families show disjunct distributions between the three major
tropical regions: South America, Africa and Asia. Explaining these disjunctions has become …

A phylogeny of the genus Gammarus Fabricius, 1775 was constructed using DNA sequence
data from the mitochondrial genes COI and 16S, and the nuclear genes 18S and 28S. Both …

Background Tropical rain forests are the most diverse terrestrial ecosystems on the planet.
How this diversity evolved remains largely unexplained. In Africa, rain forests are situated in …

Abstract The Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau (QTP) is thought to be more strongly affected by the
Quaternary glaciations than most other regions of the same latitude. It would be of great …

Molecular estimates of evolutionary timescales have an important role in a range of
biological studies. Such estimates can be made using methods based on molecular clocks …

The Hengduan Mountains (HD Mountains) in China flank the eastern edge of the Qinghai–
Tibet Plateau (Q–T Plateau) and are a center of great temperate plant diversity. The …

Cockroaches are an ecologically and economically important insect group, but some
fundamental aspects of their evolutionary history remain unresolved. In particular, there are …