The S outh A merican continent is composed of several biogeographical regions harbouring
the highest biodiversity on the globe, encompassing five of the world's biodiversity 'hot …

Hybridization can facilitate both evolutionary diversification and extinction and has had a
critical role in plant evolution, with c. 25% of species known to hybridize in some temperate …

Mimulus guttatus and M. nasutus are an evolutionary and ecological model sister species
pair differentiated by ecology, mating system, and partial reproductive isolation. Despite …

Introgression is pervasive across the tree of life but varies across taxa, geography, and
genomic regions. However, the factors modulating this variation and how they may be …

Domestication of clonally propagated crops such as pineapple from South America was
hypothesized to be a 'one-step operation'. We sequenced the genome of Ananas comosus …

Background Isolated monoliths of granitic and/or gneissic rock rising abruptly from the
surrounding landscape are known as inselbergs. Dome-shaped inselbergs are common …

Recent advances in population genomics have triggered great interest in the genomic
landscape of divergence in taxa with 'porous' species boundaries. One important obstable of …

Identifying discontinuous entities within species complexes is a major topic in systematic
and evolutionary biology. Comprehensive inventories describing and identifying species …

Background Phylogeographic research has advanced in South America, with increasing
efforts on taxa from the dry diagonal biomes. However, the diversification of endemic fauna …

High species richness and endemism in tropical mountains are recognized as major
contributors to the latitudinal diversity gradient. The processes underlying mountain …