Why should we investigate the morphological disparity of plant clades?

Gradual Assembly of Avian Body Plan Culminated in Rapid Rates of Evolution across the Dinosaur-Bird Transition

(2014) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic trees do not reliably predict feature diversity

(2014) Steven Kelly et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Integrating Early Cretaceous Fossils into the Phylogeny of Living Angiosperms: ANITA Lines and Relatives of Chloranthaceae

(2014) James A. Doyle et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

The floral morphospace - a modern comparative approach to study angiosperm evolution

(2014) Marion Chartier et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The nature and evolutionary relationships of the earliest land plants

(2014) Charles H. Wellman   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Inferring the accumulation of morphological disparity in epiphyllous liverworts

(2014) Ying Yu et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

From baby birds to feathered dinosaurs: incipient wings and the evolution of flight

(2014) Ashley M. Heers et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Extended implied weighting

(2013) Pablo A. Goloboff   CLADISTICS

Late to the Table: Diversification of Tetrapod Mandibular Biomechanics Lagged Behind the Evolution of Terrestriality

(2013) P. S. L. Anderson et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

How colorful are fruits? Limited color diversity in fleshy fruits on local and global scales

(2013) Kalliope E. Stournaras et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A Modern Ampelography: A Genetic Basis for Leaf Shape and Venation Patterning in Grape

(2013) D. H. Chitwood et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Clades reach highest morphological disparity early in their evolution

(2013) Martin Hughes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The plant fossil record reflects just two great extinction events

(2013) Borja Cascales-Miñana et al.   TERRA NOVA

A Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian) seed cone provides the earliest fossil record for Picea (Pinaceae)

(2012) Ashley A. Klymiuk et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The disparity of priapulid, archaeopriapulid and palaeoscolecid worms in the light of new data

(2012) M. A. Wills et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

High Diversity, Low Disparity and Small Body Size in Plesiosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary

(2012) Roger B. J. Benson et al.   PLoS One

Estimating divergence times in large molecular phylogenies

(2012) K. Tamura et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biodiversity tracks temperature over time

(2012) P. J. Mayhew et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Clade Age and Species Richness Are Decoupled Across the Eukaryotic Tree of Life

(2012) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Developmental plasticity, morphological variation and evolvability: a multilevel analysis of morphometric integration in the shape of compound leaves

(2011) C. P. KLINGENBERG et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Plant fossil record and survival analyses

(2011) BORJA CASCALES-MIÑANA et al.   LETHAIA

Initial radiation of jaws demonstrated stability despite faunal and environmental change

(2011) Philip S. L. Anderson et al.   NATURE

Cenozoic extinctions account for the low diversity of extant gymnosperms compared with angiosperms

(2011) Michael D. Crisp et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Constraint and adaptation in the evolution of carnivoran skull shape

(2011) Borja Figueirido et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Plant functional types in Brazilian savannas: The niche partitioning between herbaceous and woody species

(2011) Igor Aurélio Silva et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Fossil evidence for Cretaceous escalation in angiosperm leaf vein evolution

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

Resetting the evolution of marine reptiles at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary

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

Large‐Scale Diversification of Skull Shape in Domestic Dogs: Disparity and Modularity

(2010) Abby Grace Drake et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Key innovations within a geographical context in flowering plants: towards resolving Darwin’s abominable mystery

(2010) Jana C. Vamosi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Combining geometric morphometrics and functional simulation: an emerging toolkit for virtual functional analyses

(2010) Paul O’Higgins et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Allometries and the morphogenesis of the molluscan shell: a quantitative and theoretical model

(2010) Séverine Urdy et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Comparison of morphometric techniques for shapes with few homologous landmarks based on machine-learning approaches to biological discrimination

(2010) Bert Van Bocxlaer et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

A physiologically explicit morphospace for tracheid-based water transport in modern and extinct seed plants

(2010) Jonathan P. Wilson et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Bentho-Pelagic Divergence of Cichlid Feeding Architecture Was Prodigious and Consistent during Multiple Adaptive Radiations within African Rift-Lakes

(2010) W. James Cooper et al.   PLoS One

Explosive morphological diversification of spiny-finned teleost fishes in the aftermath of the end-Cretaceous extinction

(2010) M. Friedman   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

ADAPTIVE RADIATIONS, ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION, AND THE EVOLUTIONARY INTEGRATION OF COMPLEX MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURES

(2009) Leandro R. Monteiro et al.   EVOLUTION

Advances in Geometric Morphometrics

(2009) Philipp Mitteroecker et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Morphological correlates of bite force and diet in the skull and mandible of phyllostomid bats

(2009) Marcelo R. Nogueira et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Deep homology and the origins of evolutionary novelty

(2009) Neil Shubin et al.   NATURE

Morphological criteria for recognising homology in isolated skeletal elements: comparison of traditional and morphometric approaches in conodonts

(2009) DAVID JONES et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Macroevolution and the biological diversity of plants and herbivores

(2009) D. J. Futuyma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Angiosperm leaf vein evolution was physiologically and environmentally transformative

(2009) C. K. Boyce et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time

(2009) M. J. Benton   SCIENCE

Complete Generic-Level Phylogenetic Analyses of Palms (Arecaceae) with Comparisons of Supertree and Supermatrix Approaches

(2009) William J. Baker et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Is Morphology Really at Odds with Molecules in Estimating Fern Phylogeny?

(2009) Harald Schneider et al.   SYSTEMATIC BOTANY

Differences in the selection response of serially repeated color pattern characters: Standing variation, development, and evolution

(2008) Cerisse E Allen et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Vegetative morphology and trait correlations in 54 species of Commelinaceae

(2008) JEAN H. BURNS et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A phylogenetic perspective on the distribution of plant diversity

(2008) M. J. Donoghue   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA