Although environmental filtering has been observed to influence the biodiversity patterns of marine bacterial communities, it was restricted to the regional scale and to the species level, leaving the main drivers unknown at large biogeographic scales and higher taxonomic levels. Bacterial communities with different species compositions may nevertheless share phylogenetic lineages, and phylogen...

the genus astragalus l. (fabaceae) is reviewed from both phyloenetic and taxonomic points of view. as the largest genus of flowering plants it has attracted many researchers, but much work remains to be done. a short taxonomic history with special focus on infrageneric classification of the genus, a list of phylogenetic studies including the applied markers and sampling strategies as well a...