Reconstructing the age and historical biogeography of the ancient flowering-plant family Hydatellaceae (Nymphaeales)

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

Molecular phylogenetics of Hydatellaceae (Nymphaeales): Sexual-system homoplasy and a new sectional classification

(2012) William J. D. Iles et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Embryology in Trithuria submersa (Hydatellaceae) and relationships between embryo, endosperm, and perisperm in early-diverging flowering plants

(2012) William E. Friedman et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Angiosperm phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa

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

Relaxed Clocks and Inferences of Heterogeneous Patterns of Nucleotide Substitution and Divergence Time Estimates across Whales and Dolphins (Mammalia: Cetacea)

(2011) A. Dornburg et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Establishing a time-scale for plant evolution

(2011) John T. Clarke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The age and diversification of the angiosperms re-revisited

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

Bayesian random local clocks, or one rate to rule them all

(2010) Alexei J Drummond et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Molecular evolutionary rates predict both extinction and speciation in temperate angiosperm lineages

(2010) Lesley T Lancaster   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

S-DIVA (Statistical Dispersal-Vicariance Analysis): A tool for inferring biogeographic histories

(2010) Yan Yu et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A duplicate gene rooting of seed plants and the phylogenetic position of flowering plants

(2010) S. Mathews et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

Seed fertilization, development, and germination in Hydatellaceae (Nymphaeales): Implications for endosperm evolution in early angiosperms

(2009) Paula J. Rudall et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Reconstructing the ancestral angiosperm flower and its initial specializations

(2009) Peter K. Endress et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

EXPLOSIVE RADIATION OR CRYPTIC MASS EXTINCTION? INTERPRETING SIGNATURES IN MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES

(2009) Michael D. Crisp et al.   EVOLUTION

EXTINCTION RATES SHOULD NOT BE ESTIMATED FROM MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES

(2009) Daniel L. Rabosky   EVOLUTION

Bayesian Inference of Species Trees from Multilocus Data

(2009) J. Heled et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Scutifolium jordanicum gen. et sp. nov. (Cabombaceae), an aquatic fossil plant from the Lower Cretaceous of Jordan, and the relationships of related leaf fossils to living genera

(2008) David Winship Taylor et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Different gymnosperm outgroups have (mostly) congruent signal regarding the root of flowering plant phylogeny

(2008) Sean W. Graham et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Nonflowers near the base of extant angiosperms? Spatiotemporal arrangement of organs in reproductive units of Hydatellaceae and its bearing on the origin of the flower

(2008) Paula J. Rudall et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Comparative Ovule and Megagametophyte Development in Hydatellaceae and Water Lilies Reveal a Mosaic of Features Among the Earliest Angiosperms

(2008) P. J. Rudall et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Oldest record of Trimeniaceae from the Early Cretaceous of northern Japan

(2008) Toshihiro Yamada et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Hydatellaceae are water lilies with gymnospermous tendencies

(2008) William E. Friedman   NATURE

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

(2008) S. A. Smith et al.   SCIENCE