Contributions from paleobotany, phylogenetics, genomics, developmental biology, and
developmental genetics have yielded tremendous insight into Darwin's “abominable …

Background Understanding the mode and mechanisms of the evolution of the angiosperm
flower is a long-standing and central problem of evolutionary biology and botany. It has …

Homology—a similar trait shared by different species and derived from common ancestry,
such as a seal's fin and a bird's wing—is one of the most fundamental yet challenging …

Polyploidy has long been recognized as a major force in angiosperm evolution. Recent
genomic investigations not only indicate that polyploidy is ubiquitous among angiosperms …

Increasingly robust understanding of angiosperm phylogeny allows more secure
reconstruction of the flower in the most recent common ancestor of extant angiosperms and …

Despite the broad acceptance of phylogenetic principles in biological classification, a
fundamental question still exists on how to classify paraphyletic groups. Much of the …

International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology presents current advances and
comprehensive reviews in cell biology--both plant and animal. Articles address structure and …

Background Although the flower is the central feature of the angiosperms, little is known of
its origin and subsequent diversification. The ABC model has long been the unifying …

The origin of the flower was a key innovation in the history of complex organisms,
dramatically altering Earth's biota. Advances in phylogenetics, developmental genetics, and …

Developmental genetic pathways involved in flower formation in model plants such as
Arabidopsis and maize enable us to identify genes, gene families, and gene networks that …