Late Cretaceous-Early Eocene origin of yams (Dioscorea, Dioscoreaceae) in the Laurasian Palaearctic and their subsequent Oligocene-Miocene diversification

Monocot fossils suitable for molecular dating analyses

(2015) William J. D. Iles et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A metacalibrated time-tree documents the early rise of flowering plant phylogenetic diversity

(2015) Susana Magallón et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Dioscoreaceae fossils from the late Oligocene and early Miocene of Ethiopia

(2014) Aaron D. Pan et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The De Geer, Thulean and Beringia routes: key concepts for understanding early Cenozoic biogeography

(2014) Leonidas Brikiatis   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Latitudinal Environmental Niches and Riverine Barriers Shaped the Phylogeography of the Central Chilean Endemic Dioscorea humilis (Dioscoreaceae)

(2014) Juan Viruel et al.   PLoS One

Integrating Fossils, Phylogenies, and Niche Models into Biogeography to Reveal Ancient Evolutionary History: The Case of Hypericum (Hypericaceae)

(2014) Andrea S. Meseguer et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The abrupt climate change at the Eocene–Oligocene boundary and the emergence of South-East Asia triggered the spread of sapindaceous lineages

(2013) Sven Buerki et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Early Miocene origin and cryptic diversification of South American salamanders

(2013) Kathryn R Elmer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Proto-South-East Asia as a trigger of early angiosperm diversification

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

Testing geological models of evolution of the Isthmus of Panama in a phylogenetic framework

(2012) Christine D. Bacon et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Global biogeography and diversification of palms sheds light on the evolution of tropical lineages. I. Historical biogeography

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

Fossil evidence for earliest Neogene American faunal interchange:Boa(Serpentes, Boinae) from the early Miocene of Panama

(2012) Jason J. Head et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Disrupted phylogeographical microsatellite and chloroplast DNA patterns indicate a vicariance rather than long-distance dispersal origin for the disjunct distribution of the Chilean endemic Dioscorea biloba (Dioscoreaceae) around the Atacama Desert

(2011) Juan Viruel et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Vicariance or long-distance dispersal: historical biogeography of the pantropical subfamily Chrysophylloideae (Sapotaceae)

(2010) Igor V. Bartish et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

An evaluation of new parsimony-based versus parametric inference methods in biogeography: a case study using the globally distributed plant family Sapindaceae

(2010) Sven Buerki et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biogeography of the Monimiaceae (Laurales): a role for East Gondwana and long-distance dispersal, but not West Gondwana

(2010) Susanne S. Renner et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Crops that feed the World 1. Yams

(2010) Robert Asiedu et al.   Food Security

Why does the biota of the Madagascar region have such a strong Asiatic flavour?

(2009) Ben H. Warren et al.   CLADISTICS

A multi-locus plastid phylogenetic analysis of the pantropical genus Diospyros (Ebenaceae), with an emphasis on the radiation and biogeographic origins of the New Caledonian endemic species

(2009) Sutee Duangjai et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Diversification of myco-heterotrophic angiosperms: evidence from Burmanniaceae

(2008) Vincent Merckx et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Inferring dispersal: a Bayesian approach to phylogeny-based island biogeography, with special reference to the Canary Islands

(2008) Isabel Sanmartín et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

(2008) James C. Zachos et al.   NATURE

Cholestane and spirostane glycosides from the rhizomes of Dioscorea septemloba

(2008) Xue-Ting Liu et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

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

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