Grass diversification in Madagascar: In situ radiation of two large C3 shade clades and support for a Miocene to Pliocene origin of C4 grassy biomes

Contrasting dispersal histories of broad- and fine-leaved temperate Loliinae grasses: range expansion, founder events, and the roles of distance and barriers

(2017) Miguel Minaya et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Sweet vernal grasses (Anthoxanthum ) colonized African mountains along two fronts in the Late Pliocene, followed by secondary contact, polyploidization and local extinction in the Pleistocene

(2017) Felly Mugizi Tusiime et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Single nucleotide polymorphism discovery via genotyping by sequencing to assess population genetic structure and recurrent polyploidization in Andropogon gerardii

(2016) Christine A. McAllister et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Museomics resolve the systematics of an endangered grass lineage endemic to north-western Madagascar

(2016) Christian Silva et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Evolutionary relationships in Panicoid grasses based on plastome phylogenomics (Panicoideae; Poaceae)

(2016) Sean V. Burke et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Evaluating the influence of connectivity and distance on biogeographical patterns in the south-western deserts of North America

(2016) Matthew H. Van Dam et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Madagascar's grasses and grasslands: anthropogenic or natural?

(2016) Maria S. Vorontsova et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Madagascar's ephemeral palaeo-grazer guild: who ate the ancient C4grasses?

(2016) L. R. Godfrey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenomics and Plastome Evolution of Tropical Forest Grasses (Leptaspis, Streptochaeta: Poaceae)

(2016) Sean V. Burke et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The biogeographic origin of a radiation of trees in Madagascar: implications for the assembly of a tropical forest biome

(2015) Sarah Federman et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Resolving deep relationships of PACMAD grasses: a phylogenomic approach

(2015) Joseph L. Cotton et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Photosynthetic innovation broadens the niche within a single species

(2015) Marjorie R. Lundgren et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A worldwide phylogenetic classification of the Poaceae (Gramineae)

(2015) Robert J. SORENG et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

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

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Disentangling the influence of climatic and geological changes on species radiations

(2014) H. Peter Linder et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

(2014) Guillaume Besnard et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The evolutionary ecology of C4plants

(2014) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A global database of C4photosynthesis in grasses

(2014) Colin P. Osborne et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

C4 Photosynthesis Promoted Species Diversification during the Miocene Grassland Expansion

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

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

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

(2013) Guillaume Besnard et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Spatio-temporal history of the endemic genera of Madagascar

(2013) Sven Buerki et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Mechanisms driving an unusual latitudinal diversity gradient for grasses

(2013) Vernon Visser et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

What determines biogeographical ranges? Historical wanderings and ecological constraints in the danthonioid grasses

(2013) H. Peter Linder et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

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

Global biogeography and diversification of palms sheds light on the evolution of tropical lineages. II. Diversification history and origin of regional assemblages

(2012) William J. Baker et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Environmental factors determining the phylogenetic structure of C4 grass communities

(2011) Vernon Visser et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Photosynthetic pathway and ecological adaptation explain stomatal trait diversity amongst grasses

(2011) S. H. Taylor et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

New grass phylogeny resolves deep evolutionary relationships and discovers C4 origins

(2011)   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Late Cretaceous origin of the rice tribe provides evidence for early diversification in Poaceae

(2011) V. Prasad et al.   Nature Communications

The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science

(2010) E. J. Edwards et al.   SCIENCE

The scramble for Africa: pan-temperate elements on the African high mountains

(2009) B. Gehrke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Madagascar as a model region of species diversification

(2009) Miguel Vences et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Climate, phylogeny and the ecological distribution of C4 grasses

(2008) Erika J. Edwards et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

NEOENDEMISM IN MADAGASCAN SCALY TREE FERNS RESULTS FROM RECENT, COINCIDENT DIVERSIFICATION BURSTS

(2008) Thomas Janssen et al.   EVOLUTION

The age of the grasses and clusters of origins of C4photosynthesis

(2008) ALBERTO VICENTINI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

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

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

Oligocene CO2 Decline Promoted C4 Photosynthesis in Grasses

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