From museums to genomics: old herbarium specimens shed light on a C3 to C4 transition

C4 Photosynthesis Promoted Species Diversification during the Miocene Grassland Expansion

(2014) Elizabeth L. Spriggs et al.   PLoS One

Tropical grassy biomes: misunderstood, neglected, and under threat

(2014) Catherine L. Parr et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Phylogenomics and taxonomy of Lecomtelleae (Poaceae), an isolated panicoid lineage from Madagascar

(2013) Guillaume Besnard et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Using a surviving lineage of Madagascar’s vanished megafauna for ecological restoration

(2013) Miguel Pedrono et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Unlocking the vault: next-generation museum population genomics

(2013) Ke Bi et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Genomic Treasure Troves: Complete Genome Sequencing of Herbarium and Insect Museum Specimens

(2013) Martijn Staats et al.   PLoS One

Next-Generation Museomics Disentangles One of the Largest Primate Radiations

(2013) Katerina Guschanski et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Molecular Dating, Evolutionary Rates, and the Age of the Grasses

(2013) P.-A. Christin et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Ancestry of modern Europeans: contributions of ancient DNA

(2012) Marie Lacan et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Adaptive Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis through Recurrent Lateral Gene Transfer

(2012) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Rapid Sequencing of the Bamboo Mitochondrial Genome Using Illumina Technology and Parallel Episodic Evolution of Organelle Genomes in Grasses

(2012) Peng-Fei Ma et al.   PLoS One

FastUniq: A Fast De Novo Duplicates Removal Tool for Paired Short Reads

(2012) Haibin Xu et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenomics and a posteriori data partitioning resolve the Cretaceous angiosperm radiation Malpighiales

(2012) Z. Xi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genetic data suggest a natural prehuman origin of open habitats in northern Madagascar and question the deforestation narrative in this region

(2012) E. Quemere et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Anatomical enablers and the evolution of C4photosynthesis in grasses

(2012) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic relationships of Aristida and relatives (Poaceae, Aristidoideae) based on noncoding chloroplast (trnL-F , rpl16 ) and nuclear (ITS) DNA sequences

(2011) Rosa Cerros-Tlatilpa et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Navigating the tip of the genomic iceberg: Next-generation sequencing for plant systematics

(2011) Shannon C. K. Straub et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Advances in Insect Phylogeny at the Dawn of the Postgenomic Era

(2011) Michelle D. Trautwein et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Field guide to next-generation DNA sequencers

(2011) TRAVIS C. GLENN   Molecular Ecology Resources

New grass phylogeny resolves deep evolutionary relationships and discovers C4 origins

(2011)   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

High-Throughput Sequencing of Six Bamboo Chloroplast Genomes: Phylogenetic Implications for Temperate Woody Bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae)

(2011) Yun-Jie Zhang et al.   PLoS One

DNA Damage in Plant Herbarium Tissue

(2011) Martijn Staats et al.   PLoS One

A new species of Sartidia (Graminae), endemic to ultramafic soils

(2011) K. Balkwill et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

A framework for metacommunity analysis of phylogenetic structure

(2010) Valério D. Pillar et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Darwin’s Galapagos gourd: providing new insights 175 years after his visit

(2010) Patrizia Sebastian et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Whole genome sequencing of enriched chloroplast DNA using the Illumina GAII platform

(2010) Robin A Atherton et al.   Plant Methods

The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science

(2010) E. J. Edwards et al.   SCIENCE

A Gift from the New World? The West African Crop Cucumeropsis mannii and the American Posadaea sphaerocarpa (Cucurbitaceae) are the Same Species

(2010) Hanno Schaefer et al.   SYSTEMATIC BOTANY

Two independent C4 origins in Aristidoideae (Poaceae) revealed by the recruitment of distinct phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase genes

(2009) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

C3 photosynthesis in Aristida longifolia : Implication for photosynthetic diversification in Aristidoideae (Poaceae)

(2009) Rosa Cerros-Tlatilpa et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Comparative Genomics on the Drosophila Phylogenetic Tree

(2009) Nadia D. Singh et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Evidence for drought and forest declines during the recent megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar

(2009) Malika Virah-Sawmy et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

DNA from herbarium specimens settles a controversy about origins of the European potato

(2008) Mercedes Ames et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Nature or nurture: the ambiguity of C4grasslands in Madagascar

(2008) K. J. Willis et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The antiquity of Madagascar’s grasslands and the rise of C4grassy biomes

(2008) William J. Bond et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Multiplex sequencing of plant chloroplast genomes using Solexa sequencing-by-synthesis technology

(2008) Richard Cronn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Oligocene CO2 Decline Promoted C4 Photosynthesis in Grasses

(2007) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY