Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary trends in the cactus family

PC Guerrero, LC Majure, A Cornejo-Romero… - Journal of …, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
Members of the cactus family are keystone species of arid and semiarid biomes in the
Americas, as they provide shelter and resources to support other members of ecosystems …

A taxonomic backbone for the global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales

P Hernández-Ledesma, WG Berendsohn, T Borsch… - Willdenowia, 2015‏ - BioOne
Hernández-Ledesma P., Berendsohn WG, Borsch Th., Mering S. von, Akhani H., Arias S.,
Castañeda-Noa I., Eggli U., Eriksson R., Flores-Olvera H., Fuentes-Bazán S., Kadereit G …

Cactaceae at Caryophyllales. org–a dynamic online species-level taxonomic backbone for the family

N Korotkova, D Aquino, S Arias, U Eggli, A Franck… - Willdenowia, 2021‏ - BioOne
This data paper presents a largely phylogeny-based online taxonomic backbone for the
Cactaceae compiled from literature and online sources using the tools of the EDIT Platform …

Beyond aridification: multiple explanations for the elevated diversification of cacti in the New World Succulent Biome

T Hernández‐Hernández, JW Brown… - New …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Succulent plants are widely distributed, reaching their highest diversity in arid and semi‐arid
regions. Their origin and diversification is thought to be associated with a global expansion …

Phylogeny of Opuntia ss (Cactaceae): Clade delineation, geographic origins, and reticulate evolution

LC Majure, R Puente, MP Griffith… - American journal of …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: The opuntias (nopales, prickly pears) are not only culturally,
ecologically, economically, and medicinally important, but are renowned for their taxonomic …

Phylogenetic relationships and evolution of growth form in Cactaceae (Caryophyllales, Eudicotyledoneae)

T Hernández‐Hernández… - American journal of …, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Cactaceae is one of the most charismatic plant families because of
the extreme succulence and outstanding diversity of growth forms of its members. Although …

[HTML][HTML] Opuntia spp. in Human Health: A Comprehensive Summary on Its Pharmacological, Therapeutic and Preventive Properties. Part 2

E Madrigal-Santillán, J Portillo-Reyes… - Plants, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Plants of the genus Opuntia spp are widely distributed in Africa, Asia, Australia and America.
Specifically, Mexico has the largest number of wild species; mainly O. streptacantha, O …

Molecular systematics of the Cactaceae

RT Barcenas, C Yesson, JA Hawkins - Cladistics, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
Bayesian, maximum‐likelihood, and maximum‐parsimony phylogenies, constructed using
nucleotide sequences from the plastid gene region trnK‐matK, are employed to investigate …

Extensive gene tree discordance and hemiplasy shaped the genomes of North American columnar cacti

D Copetti, A Búrquez, E Bustamante… - Proceedings of the …, 2017‏ - pnas.org
Few clades of plants have proven as difficult to classify as cacti. One explanation may be an
unusually high level of convergent and parallel evolution (homoplasy). To evaluate support …

Monophyly, divergence times, and evolution of host plant use inferred from a revised phylogeny of the Drosophila repleta species group

DCSG Oliveira, FC Almeida, PM O'Grady… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
We present a revised molecular phylogeny of the Drosophila repleta group including 62
repleta group taxa and nine outgroup species based on four mitochondrial and six nuclear …