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

Land plant evolutionary timeline: Gene effects are secondary to fossil constraints in relaxed clock estimation of age and substitution rates

(2013) Susana Magallón et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Is it easy to move and easy to evolve? Evolutionary accessibility and adaptation

(2013) Erika J. Edwards et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The recurrent assembly of C4 photosynthesis, an evolutionary tale

(2013) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Adaptive Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis through Recurrent Lateral Gene Transfer

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

Improving the Accuracy of Demographic and Molecular Clock Model Comparison While Accommodating Phylogenetic Uncertainty

(2012) Guy Baele et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Using nuclear gene data for plant phylogenetics: Progress and prospects

(2012) Elizabeth A. Zimmer et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Anchored Hybrid Enrichment for Massively High-Throughput Phylogenomics

(2012) Alan R. Lemmon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Ultraconserved Elements Anchor Thousands of Genetic Markers Spanning Multiple Evolutionary Timescales

(2012) Brant C. Faircloth et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Angiosperm phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa

(2011) Douglas E. Soltis et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Convergent Cenozoic CO2 history

(2011) David J. Beerling et al.   Nature Geoscience

New grass phylogeny resolves deep evolutionary relationships and discovers C4 origins

(2011)   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Phytozome: a comparative platform for green plant genomics

(2011) David M. Goodstein et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

Calibrated Tree Priors for Relaxed Phylogenetics and Divergence Time Estimation

(2011) Joseph Heled et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Testing the Impact of Calibration on Molecular Divergence Times Using a Fossil-Rich Group: The Case of Nothofagus (Fagales)

(2011) Hervé Sauquet et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations

(2011) James F. Parham et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Evaluating Fossil Calibrations for Dating Phylogenies in Light of Rates of Molecular Evolution: A Comparison of Three Approaches

(2011) Vimoksalehi Lukoschek et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

(2011) V. Prasad et al.   Nature Communications

A Functional Phylogenomic View of the Seed Plants

(2011) Ernest K. Lee et al.   PLoS Genetics

The age and diversification of the angiosperms re-revisited

(2010) Charles D. Bell et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Assembling the Angiosperm Tree of Life: Progress and Future Prospects

(2010) Douglas E. Soltis et al.   ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN

Assembling the Tree of the Monocotyledons: Plastome Sequence Phylogeny and Evolution of Poales1

(2010) Thomas J. Givnish et al.   ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN

Biogeography of the grasses (Poaceae): a phylogenetic approach to reveal evolutionary history in geographical space and geological time

(2010) YANIS BOUCHENAK-KHELLADI et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

COMPLEX EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITIONS AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF C3-C4 INTERMEDIATE FORMS OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN MOLLUGINACEAE

(2010) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   EVOLUTION

Using Phylogenomic Patterns and Gene Ontology to Identify Proteins of Importance in Plant Evolution

(2010) Angélica Cibrián-Jaramillo et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Isotopic evidence of C4 grasses in southwestern Europe during the Early Oligocene-Middle Miocene

(2010) M. A. Urban et al.   GEOLOGY

Implications of the Plastid Genome Sequence of Typha (Typhaceae, Poales) for Understanding Genome Evolution in Poaceae

(2010) Mary M. Guisinger et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Performance of Relaxed-Clock Methods in Estimating Evolutionary Divergence Times and Their Credibility Intervals

(2010) Fabia U. Battistuzzi et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Did gene family expansions during the Eocene-Oligocene boundary climate cooling play a role in Pooideae adaptation to cool climates?

(2010) SIMEN RØD SANDVE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

An uncorrelated relaxed-clock analysis suggests an earlier origin for flowering plants

(2010) S. A. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science

(2010) E. J. Edwards et al.   SCIENCE

Using Fossils to Break Long Branches in Molecular Dating: A Comparison of Relaxed Clocks Applied to the Origin of Angiosperms

(2010) Susana Magallón   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Improving Marginal Likelihood Estimation for Bayesian Phylogenetic Model Selection

(2010) Wangang Xie et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses

(2009) S. Capella-Gutierrez et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

PhyloBayes 3: a Bayesian software package for phylogenetic reconstruction and molecular dating

(2009) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

An examination of phylogenetic models of substitution rate variation among lineages

(2009) S. Y.W. Ho   Biology Letters

The origins and diversification of C4grasses and savanna-adapted ungulates

(2009) YANIS BOUCHENAK-KHELLADI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Episodic Evolution and Adaptation of Chloroplast Genomes in Ancestral Grasses

(2009) Bojian Zhong et al.   PLoS One

Accounting for Calibration Uncertainty in Phylogenetic Estimation of Evolutionary Divergence Times

(2009) Simon Y. W. Ho et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics

(2008) James C. Zachos et al.   NATURE

Rates of Molecular Evolution Are Linked to Life History in Flowering Plants

(2008) S. A. Smith et al.   SCIENCE

Large-scale assignment of orthology: back to phylogenetics?

(2008) Toni Gabaldón   GENOME BIOLOGY

Oligocene CO2 Decline Promoted C4 Photosynthesis in Grasses

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