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| Vincent SavolainenSummaryAffiliation: Royal Botanic Gardens Country: UK Publications
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Consistent phenological shifts in the making of a biodiversity hotspot: the Cape floraBen H Warren
School of Biological Sciences, Lyle Tower, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6BX, UK
BMC Evol Biol 11:39. 2011....- Towards writing the encyclopedia of life: an introduction to DNA barcodingVincent Savolainen
Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 360:1805-11. 2005..g. cox1 = CO1, in animals), (iii) promoting development of handheld DNA sequencing technology that can be applied in the field for biodiversity inventories and (iv) providing insight into the diversity of life... - Sympatric speciation in palms on an oceanic islandVincent Savolainen
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS, UK
Nature 441:210-3. 2006..This case study of sympatric speciation in plants provides an opportunity for refining theoretical models on the origin of species, and new impetus for exploring putative plant and animal examples on oceanic islands... - A decade of progress in plant molecular phylogeneticsVincent Savolainen
Molecular Systematics Section, Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond TW9 3DS, UK
Trends Genet 19:717-24. 2003..With an increased interest in DNA sequencing programmes in non-model organisms, the next decade will hopefully see these phylogenetic findings integrated into new genetic syntheses, from genomes to taxa... - Using fossils and molecular data to reveal the origins of the Cape proteas (subfamily Proteoideae)Hervé Sauquet
Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond TW9 3DS, UK
Mol Phylogenet Evol 51:31-43. 2009..These results join a growing number of case studies that challenge the commonly accepted view that most of the Cape flora radiated synchronously in the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene when a Mediterranean climate settled in the region... - Land plants and DNA barcodes: short-term and long-term goalsMark W Chase
Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 360:1889-95. 2005.... - The mahogany family "out-of-Africa": divergence time estimation, global biogeographic patterns inferred from plastid rbcL DNA sequences, extant, and fossil distribution of diversityAlexandra N Muellner
Molecular Systematics Section, Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS, UK
Mol Phylogenet Evol 40:236-50. 2006.... - Phylogenetic relationships among arecoid palms (Arecaceae: Arecoideae)William J Baker
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB, UK
Ann Bot 108:1417-32. 2011..However, new data sources are required to elucidate ambiguities that remain in phylogenetic relationships among and within the major groups of Arecoideae, as well as within the Areceae, the largest tribe in the palm family... - Molecular systematics, GISH and the origin of hybrid taxa in Nicotiana (Solanaceae)Mark W Chase
Molecular Systematics Section, Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS, UK
Ann Bot (Lond) 92:107-27. 2003.... - 60 million years of co-divergence in the fig-wasp symbiosisNina Rønsted
Jodrell Laboratory Molecular Systematics Section Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS, UK
Proc Biol Sci 272:2593-9. 2005..Molecular dating of ten pairs of interacting lineages provides an unparalleled example of plant-insect co-divergence over a geological time frame spanning at least 60 million years... - Biogeographical and phylogenetic origins of African fig species (Ficus section Galoglychia)Nina Rønsted
Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS, UK
Mol Phylogenet Evol 43:190-201. 2007..The other main clade includes members of subsections Caulocarpae, Cyathistipulae, Crassicostae and Galoglychia, which are concentrated in West and Central Africa... - Phylogeny reconstruction and functional constraints in organellar genomes: plastid atpB and rbcL sequences versus animal mitochondrionVincent Savolainen
Molecular Systematics Section, Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, TW9 3DS, UK
Syst Biol 51:638-47. 2002 - Phylogeny and evolution of basils and allies (Ocimeae, Labiatae) based on three plastid DNA regionsAlan J Paton
The Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond TW9 3AB, UK
Mol Phylogenet Evol 31:277-99. 2004..There are several secondary occurrences in Asia arising from the African Ociminae and Plectranthinae clades. Colonisation of Madagascar occurred at least five times, and New World colonisation occurred at least three times... - Complete generic-level phylogenetic analyses of palms (Arecaceae) with comparisons of supertree and supermatrix approachesWilliam J Baker
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
Syst Biol 58:240-56. 2009.... - Preserving the evolutionary potential of floras in biodiversity hotspotsFelix Forest
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Private Bag X7, Claremont 7735, South Africa
Nature 445:757-60. 2007..We should be able to use PD to identify those key regions that maximize future options, both for the continuing evolution of life on Earth and for the benefit of society... - Contrasted patterns of hyperdiversification in Mediterranean hotspotsHervé Sauquet
Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond TW9 3DS, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:221-5. 2009..Our results highlight key differences between Mediterranean hotspots and indicate that Southwest Australian biota are the most phylogenetically diverse but include numerous lineages with low diversification rates... - Is cladogenesis heritable?Vincent Savolainen
Molecular Systematics Section, Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew TW9 3DS, UK
Syst Biol 51:835-43. 2002..Heritability of cladogenesis may be a general phenomenon, detectable across a large number of lineages and a broad range of taxa... - Radiation in the Cape flora and the phylogeny of peacock irises Moraea (Iridaceae) based on four plastid DNA regionsPeter Goldblatt
Missouri Botanical Garden, PO Box 299, St Louis, Missouri 63166, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 25:341-60. 2002..The early radiation of Moraea took place against a background of aridification and the spread of open habitats, such as desert, shrubland, and fynbos... - Oligocene CO2 decline promoted C4 photosynthesis in grassesPascal Antoine Christin
Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Curr Biol 18:37-43. 2008..This finding is relevant for understanding the origin of C4 photosynthesis in grasses, which is one of the most successful ecological and evolutionary innovations in plant history... - The geographical pattern of speciation and floral diversification in the neotropics: the tribe sinningieae (gesneriaceae) as a case studyMathieu Perret
Conservatoire and Jardin botaniques, CH 1292 Geneva, Switzerland
Evolution 61:1641-60. 2007..Additional studies at a lower geographical scale are needed to identify truely coexisting species and the components of their reproductive isolation... - A rapid diversification of rainforest trees (Guatteria; Annonaceae) following dispersal from Central into South AmericaRoy H J Erkens
Institute of Environmental Biology, Section Plant Ecology and Biodiversity, Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Utrecht University Branch, CA Utrecht, The Netherlands
Mol Phylogenet Evol 44:399-411. 2007..Furthermore, it is shown that phylogenetic patterns are comparable to those found in Ocotea and Inga and that a closer comparison of these genera is desirable... - Genome-scale data, angiosperm relationships, and "ending incongruence": a cautionary tale in phylogeneticsDouglas E Soltis
Department of Botany and the Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Trends Plant Sci 9:477-83. 2004..We provide a conspicuous example that includes Amborella, the putative sister of all other extant angiosperms, highlighting the limits of phylogenetics when whole genomes are used but taxon sampling is poor... - DNA barcoding the floras of biodiversity hotspotsRenaud Lahaye
Department of Botany and Plant Biotechnology, APK Campus, University of Johannesburg, P O Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:2923-8. 2008.... - Building supertrees: an empirical assessment using the grass family (Poaceae)Nicolas Salamin
Department of Botany, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Syst Biol 51:136-50. 2002.... - Neutral theory, phylogenies, and the relationship between phenotypic change and evolutionary ratesT Jonathan Davies
Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22904, USA
Evolution 60:476-83. 2006..These results may be explained by the idea that processes that affect general evolutionary rates, such as body size, may also be expected to influence rates of morphological change... - Environmental energy and evolutionary rates in flowering plantsT Jonathan Davies
Department of Biological Scienes and NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College, London. Ascot SL7 7PUY, UK
Proc Biol Sci 271:2195-200. 2004..Energy has strong, but independent effects on both species richness and molecular evolutionary rates... - Environmental causes for plant biodiversity gradientsT Jonathan Davies
Department of Biological Sciences and NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 359:1645-56. 2004.... - Europe's fight for the tree of lifeVincent Savolainen
Science 302:1894. 2003 - Darwin's abominable mystery: Insights from a supertree of the angiospermsT Jonathan Davies
Department of Biological Sciences and Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:1904-9. 2004.... - Environment, area, and diversification in the species-rich flowering plant family IridaceaeT Jonathan Davies
Division of Biology and Natural Environmental Research Council Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, United Kingdom
Am Nat 166:418-25. 2005..One possible explanation is that the interaction between biological traits and environment resulted in the unusually high diversification rates in the region... - A plea for DNA bankingVincent Savolainen
Science 304:1445. 2004 - Large multi-gene phylogenetic trees of the grasses (Poaceae): progress towards complete tribal and generic level samplingYanis Bouchenak-Khelladi
Department of Botany, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, D2, Ireland
Mol Phylogenet Evol 47:488-505. 2008..We produced a fully resolved phylogenetic summary tree for the grass family at subfamily level and indicated the most likely relationships of all included tribes in our analysis... - C4 Photosynthesis evolved in grasses via parallel adaptive genetic changesPascal Antoine Christin
Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Curr Biol 17:1241-7. 2007..The C4-specific amino acids detected must be essential for C4 PEPC enzymatic characteristics, and their identification opens new avenues for the engineering of the C4 pathway in crops... - Assessing internal support with large phylogenetic DNA matricesNicolas Salamin
Department of Botany, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
Mol Phylogenet Evol 27:528-39. 2003 - Evolutionary biology: genetics and bisexualityVincent Savolainen
Nature 445:158-9. 2007