The recent classification of angiosperms by Chase and Reveal, based on APG III and emphasizing holophyletic concepts, results in a system of 16 coordinate superorders. Some of these contain very ...

High-throughput sequencing is fundamentally altering traditional phylogenetic classifications. While the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) III system based on chloroplast sequences has opened up a new ...

Species composition within a geographic area is the result of historical processes including speciation, extinction, migration 6 and ongoing ecological interactions. The extent to which each process ...

Paleontologists may be on the verge of solving one of the great mysteries in the history of life on our planet – the origin of angiosperms, the flowering plants. The importance of angiosperms cannot ...

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Researchers are using a Pacific island plant called Amborella trichopoda to help solve "Darwin's abominable mystery"—what was it, exactly, that caused the explosion of flowering plants in the fossil ...