Pleistocene aridification underlies the evolutionary history of the Caribbean endemic, insular, giant Consolea (Opuntioideae)

Phylogenetics of Leptocereus (Cactaceae) on Hispaniola: clarifying species limits in the L. weingartianus complex and a new species from the Sierra de Bahoruco

(2021) Lucas C. Majure et al.   PhytoKeys

Towards a synthesis of the Caribbean biogeography of terrestrial arthropods

(2020) Sarah C. Crews et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Antillean endemic genus Leptocereus (Cactaceae) inferred from chloroplast markers and morphological evidence

(2020) Duniel Barrios et al.   PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION

Insights Into Chloroplast Genome Evolution Across Opuntioideae (Cactaceae) Reveals Robust Yet Sometimes Conflicting Phylogenetic Topologies

(2020) Matias Köhler et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Biogeography of the Caribbean Cyrtognatha spiders

(2019) Klemen Čandek et al.   Scientific Reports

Chromosome Numbers in Some Cacti of Western North America — IX

(2019) Marc A. Baker et al.   HASELTONIA

Phylogenomics in Cactaceae: A case study using the chollas sensu lato (Cylindropuntieae, Opuntioideae) reveals a common pattern out of the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts

(2019) Lucas C. Majure et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Plants obey (and disobey) the island rule

(2019) M. Biddick et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tropical savannas and dry forests

(2018) R. Toby Pennington et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Functional Dioecy in Echinocereus: Ontogenetic Patterns, Programmed Cell Death, and Evolutionary Significance

(2018) Rocío Hernández-Cruz et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Geographical ecology of dry forest tree communities in the West Indies

(2018) Janet Franklin et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The roles of dispersal and mass extinction in shaping palm diversity across the Caribbean

(2018) Ángela Cano et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Renewing Felsenstein’s phylogenetic bootstrap in the era of big data

(2018) F. Lemoine et al.   NATURE

Posterior Summarization in Bayesian Phylogenetics Using Tracer 1.7

(2018) Andrew Rambaut et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Bayesian spatio‐temporal reconstruction reveals rapid diversification and Pleistocene range expansion in the widespread columnar cactus Pilosocereus

(2018) Pâmela Lavor et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Phylogenetic Relationships and Evolutionary Trends in the Cactus Family

(2018) Pablo C Guerrero et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Convergent evolution of gigantism in the flora of an isolated archipelago

(2017) Bart Te Manihera Cox et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Origin, paleoecology, and extirpation of bluebirds and crossbills in the Bahamas across the last glacial–interglacial transition

(2017) David W. Steadman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A new species of extinct Late Quaternary giant tortoise from Hispaniola

(2017) SAMUEL T. TURVEY et al.   ZOOTAXA

Historical Biogeography of endemic seed plant genera in the Caribbean: Did GAARlandia play a role?

(2017) María Esther Nieto-Blázquez et al.   Ecology and Evolution

A simple method to control over-alignment in the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program

(2016) Kazutaka Katoh et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Model-based analysis supports interglacial refugia over long-dispersal events in the diversification of two South American cactus species

(2016) M F Perez et al.   HEREDITY

Pleistocene radiation of coastal species of Pilosocereus (Cactaceae) in eastern Brazil

(2016) Marcelo O.T. Menezes et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Successive arrivals since the Miocene shaped the diversity of the Caribbean Acalyphoideae (Euphorbiaceae)

(2016) Angélica Cervantes et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Consequences of Secondary Calibrations on Divergence Time Estimates

(2016) John J. Schenk   PLoS One

Plant diversity patterns in neotropical dry forests and their conservation implications

(2016) et al.   SCIENCE

Influence of Pleistocene Glacial/Interglacial Cycles on the Genetic Structure of the Mistletoe Cactus Rhipsalis baccifera (Cactaceae) in Mesoamerica

(2015) J. F. Ornelas et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

RASP (Reconstruct Ancestral State in Phylogenies): A tool for historical biogeography

(2015) Yan Yu et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Vertebrate community on an ice-age Caribbean island

(2015) David W. Steadman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High proportion of cactus species threatened with extinction

(2015) Bárbara Goettsch et al.   Nature Plants

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Incidence, Correlates, and Origins of Dioecy in the Island Flora of New Caledonia

(2014) Mark A. Schlessman et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Changes in a West Indian bird community since the late Pleistocene

(2014) David W. Steadman et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Model Selection in Historical Biogeography Reveals that Founder-Event Speciation Is a Crucial Process in Island Clades

(2014) Nicholas J. Matzke   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

(2014) Remco Bouckaert et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Bayesian Analysis of Biogeography when the Number of Areas is Large

(2013) Michael J. Landis et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogeny, Biogeography, and Infrageneric Classification of Harrisia (Cactaceae)

(2013) Alan R. Franck et al.   SYSTEMATIC BOTANY

Relationships and dispersal of the Caribbean species of Harrisia (sect. Harrisia; Cactaceae) using AFLPs and seven DNA regions

(2013) Alan R. Franck et al.   TAXON

Phylogeny of Opuntia s.s. (Cactaceae): Clade delineation, geographic origins, and reticulate evolution

(2012) Lucas C. Majure et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Molecular phylogeny and character evolution in terete-stemmed Andean opuntias (Cactaceae−Opuntioideae)

(2012) C.M. Ritz et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Brunfelsia (Solanaceae): A genus evenly divided between South America and radiations on Cuba and other Antillean islands

(2012) Natalia Filipowicz et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogeny and Biogeography of the Carnivorous Plant Family Sarraceniaceae

(2012) Aaron M. Ellison et al.   PLoS One

Plants in a crowded stand regulate their height growth so as to maintain similar heights to neighbours even when they have potential advantages in height growth

(2011) Hisae Nagashima et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

The evolution of island gigantism and body size variation in tortoises and turtles

(2011) A. L. Jaffe et al.   Biology Letters

An extinct monkey from Haiti and the origins of the Greater Antillean primates

(2011) S. B. Cooke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Contemporaneous and recent radiations of the world's major succulent plant lineages

(2011) M. Arakaki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reproductive implications of combined and separate sexes in a trioecious population of Opuntia robusta (Cactaceae)

(2009) R. F. del Castillo et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Giant Tortoises as Ecological Engineers: A Long-term Quasi-experiment in the Galápagos Islands

(2009) James P. Gibbs et al.   BIOTROPICA

Chromosome Numbers in Some Cacti of Western North America-VIII

(2009) Marc A Baker et al.   HASELTONIA

Phylogeny of Opuntioideae (Cactaceae)

(2009) M. Patrick Griffith et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Heterochrony and its role in sex determination of cryptically dioecious Consolea (Cactaceae) staminate flowers

(2008) LARA I. STRITTMATTER et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Floristic Richness and Affinities in the West Indies

(2008) Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez et al.   BOTANICAL REVIEW

Speciation timing and neotropical biodiversity: the Tertiary-Quaternary debate in the light of molecular phylogenetic evidence

(2008) VALENTÍ RULL   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Maximum Likelihood Inference of Geographic Range Evolution by Dispersal, Local Extinction, and Cladogenesis

(2008) Richard H. Ree et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY