FRUIT EVOLUTION AND DIVERSIFICATION IN CAMPANULID ANGIOSPERMS

Fruit evolution and diversification in campanulid angiosperms.

With increases in both the size and scope of phylogenetic trees, we are afforded a renewed opportunity to address long-standing comparative questions, such as whether particular fruit characters account for much of the variation in diversity among flowering plant clades. Studies to date have reported conflicting results, largely as a consequence of taxonomic scale and a reliance on potentially ...

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Identifying hidden rate changes in the evolution of a binary morphological character: the evolution of plant habit in campanulid angiosperms.

The growth of phylogenetic trees in scope and in size is promising from the standpoint of understanding a wide variety of evolutionary patterns and processes. With trees comprised of larger, older, and globally distributed clades, it is likely that the lability of a binary character will differ significantly among lineages, which could lead to errors in estimating transition rates and the assoc...

Current and Cretaceous-Cenozoic diversification of Angiosperms

Cretaceous-Cenozoic history of angiosperms led to the a certain character of the distribution of taxa of different levels (the number of species and genera in families, species/genera ratio in families, the number of species in the genera). In most cases, these distributions are satisfactorily described by a power law (Pareto distribution). In logarithmic coordinates power function is a straigh...

Evolutionary diversification of the flowers in angiosperms.

Angiosperms and their flowers have greatly diversified into an overwhelming array of forms in the past 135 million years. Diversification was shaped by changes in climate and the biological environment (vegetation, interaction with other organisms) and by internal structural constraints and potentials. This review focuses on the development and structural diversity of flowers and structural con...