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IDTitleSection/TopicAuthorsKeywords
167A Closer Look at the Diversification and Evolution of the Silphium GenusMacroevolutionRoot, Connor; Cook, Tyson; Roy, Tilottama.
861A study of floral evolution in Lonicera (Caprifoliaceae) while looking through an interactive lensMacroevolutionShah, Ria B.; Bergen, Anna T; Srivastav, Mansa; Donoghue, Michael; Wright, Haley; Merklee, Patrick; Ault, Chris; Clement, Wendy.phylogeny
floral evolution
Lonicera
honeysuckle
Science communication
Outreach
Caprifoliaceae
575Causes of delayed angiosperm diversification: the photosynthetic revolution, increased opportunity costs of anti-herbivore defenses, selection for low-cost qualitative toxins, and acceleration of plant-herbivore coevolutionMacroevolutionGivnish, Thomas.mesangiosperms
opportunity costs
quantitative vs. qualitative toxins
net rate of species diversification
217Colonization of the Andes triggered pollinator shifts and a burst in speciation rate in Neotropical Merianieae (Melastomataceae)MacroevolutionDellinger, Agnes; Lagomarsino, Laura; Smith, Stacey.plant-pollinator interactions
Diversification
Neotropical biogeography
vegetative traits
Climatic niche
morphospace
disparity
Andean uplift
488Convergence without divergence in North American red-flowering SileneMacroevolutionBerardi, Andrea.adaptation
Evolution
pigments
Anthocyanins
carotenoids
Floral morphology
Silene
target-capture
herbaria
789Dealing with correlated observations in regularized regression: a phylogenetic elastic net approach for predicting leaf traits using leaf reflectance spectraMacroevolutionGoolsby, Eric; Richardson, Andrew.Phylogenetic comparative methods
hyperspectral imaging
Phenotype Prediction
Machine Learning
109Exploring the role of habitat fragmentation in Caryophyllaceae alpine-arctic plant evolutionMacroevolutionFeng, Keyi; Smith, Stephen.Caryophyllaceae
alpine
arctic
speciation rate
habitat fragmentation
464Filament curtains, didynamous stamens, asymmetric stigmas, and the evolution of reproductive floral whorls in Ruellia (Acanthaceae)MacroevolutionRose, Jeffrey; Manzitto-Tripp, Erin.Acanthaceae
Lamiales
Ruellia
floral evolution
breeding system
herkogamy
895Floral adaptation to climate and pollinators during Silene diversification across two continentsMacroevolutionMiladin, Jenna; Steven, Janet; Collar, David.macroevolution
Pollination
 ecological niche modelling
Phylogenetic comparative methods
331Genetic mechanisms underlying the convergent evolution of pollination syndromes in the Neotropical radiation of Costus LMacroevolutionSpecht, Chelsea; Landis, Jacob; Valderrama, Eugenio; Andre, Thiago; Skinner, David; Maas, Paul J.M.; Maas-van de Kamer, Hiltje; Almeida, Ana Maria.Costaceae
Zingiberales
Pollination syndrome
selection
floral evolution
genetic mechanisms
correlated trait evolution
Costus L.
220he Buffalograss-Salmacisia pathosystem as a potential driving force for dioecious host sex evolutionMacroevolutionTaylor, Anthony; Sheltra, Matthew; Huff, David.Dioecy
Evolution
Sex
Parastite
Parasitic
Buffalograss
Fungi
Fungus
Host-parasite
Red Queen Hypothesis
Dioecious
Induced Hermaphroditism
537How does the level of pollination specialization affect the evolution of flower shape?MacroevolutionJoly, Simon; Faure, Julie; Martén-Rodríguez, Silvana; Clark, John L..Pollinators
morphometry
Geometric Morphometrics
Phylogenetic comparative methods
Gesneriaceae
Generalists
864Investigating the role of environment, ploidal level, and symbiotic partner in the diversification of the Mimosoid clade (Leguminosae)MacroevolutionSiniscalchi, Carolina; Barros-Souza, Yago; Doby, Joshua; Belitz, Michael; Kates, Heather; Yi, Ting-Shuang; Soltis, Pamela; Soltis, Douglas; Guralnick, Robert; Borges, Leonardo; Folk, Ryan.nitrogen-fixing plants
speciation rate
Fabaceae
115Investigating the Root Economic Spectrum hypothesis and plant-fire dynamics using a macroevolutionary common gardenMacroevolutionWatts, Jacob; Pellegrini, Adam.Evolution
fine roots
common garden
disturbance ecology
economic spectrum
563Is the floral shape of Impatiens capensis influenced by urbanization?MacroevolutionBurkiewicz, Jérôme; Carvalho, Julie; Joly, Simon.floral evolution
Geometric Morphometrics
Pollinators
common garden
Generalists
268Phylogenomics, patterns of species diversity and co-occurrence in the mariposa lilies (Calochortus; Liliaceae)MacroevolutionKarimi, Nisa; Hernandez, Adriana; Rodriguez Contreras, Aaron; Eifler, Evan; Chan, Patricia; Landis, Jacob; Lemmon, Alan; Lemmon, Emily; Strickler, Susan; Specht, Chelsea; Givnish, Thomas.Calochortus
Phylogeography
species richness
Diversity
California
environmental heterogeneity
723Plant-pollinator relationships, biogeography, and climatic niche shape the evolution of florally diverse, Neotropical Hillieae (Rubiaceae)MacroevolutionBall, Laymon; Lagomarsino, Laura.biogeography
niche evolution
Neotropics
Pollination syndromes
Rubiaceae
targeted sequencing
165Rapid diversification of vascular architecture underlies the Carboniferous fern radiationMacroevolutionSuissa, Jacob; Friedman, William.macroevolution
 morphology
Anatomy
vascular tissues
Ferns
stelar morphology
911Retrieving and managing large datasets from REFLORA and other databases to obtain information about taxa occurring in the campos rupestresMacroevolutionCortez, Maria Beatriz; Shimizu, Gustavo; Barve, Vijay; Gitzendanner, Matt; Guralnick, Robert; Soltis, Douglas; Soltis, Pamela.campos rupestres
REFLORA
evolutionary patterns
large datasets
R
Python
Checklist
570Species’ life history traits interact to predict island colonization in a global dataset of >3000 speciesMacroevolutionZell, Anne; Grady, Erin; Miranda, Charlotte; Igic, Boris; Grossenbacher, Dena.breeding system
Self-compatibility
correlated trait evolution
biogeography
314Structural color, cell walls, and the evolution of Viburnum fruitsMacroevolutionSinnott-Armstrong, Miranda; Middleton, Rox; Ogawa, Yu; Jacucci, Gianni; Moyroud, Edwige; Glover, Beverley; Rudall, Paula; Vignolini, Silvia; Donoghue, Michael.fruit color
seed dispersal
endozoochory
structural color
767The influence of chromosome evolution on diversification rates in Carex (Cyperaceae)MacroevolutionTribble, Carrie; José Ignacio, Márquez Corro; Mike R., May; Escudero Lirio, Antonio Marcial; Hipp, Andrew; Rosana, Zenil-Ferguson.Aneuploidy
state-dependent speciation and extinction
RevBayes
Cyperaceae
hidden states
698The Macroevolution of a Smoke-induced Seed Germination TraitMacroevolutionChen, Yanni; Latvis, Maribeth; Perkins, Lora; A. Joshua, Leffler; Johnson, Matt.smoke induced seed germination
macroevolution
phylogenetic signal
Ancestral state reconstruction
trait evolution
1430This is a sample titleMacroevolutionTechnolgoies, X-CD.Medicinal Plants
climbing plants
435Uncertain timescales in plant macroevolutionMacroevolutionCarruthers, Tom.divergence time estimation
macroevolution
Diversification
uncertainty

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