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Climate, phylogeny and the ecological distribution of C4 grassesErika J Edwards
Department of Geography and the Institute for Computational Earth System Science University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
Ecol Lett 11:266-76. 2008....
Phylogenetic analyses reveal the shady history of C4 grassesErika J Edwards
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:2532-7. 2010..Furthermore, we argue that the evolution of cold tolerance in certain C(3) lineages is an overlooked innovation that has profoundly influenced the patterning of grassland communities across the globe...
The origins of C4 grasslands: integrating evolutionary and ecosystem scienceErika J Edwards
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Science 328:587-91. 2010....
C(4) eudicots are not younger than C(4) monocotsPascal Antoine Christin
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, 80 Waterman St, Box G W, Providence, RI 02912, USA
J Exp Bot 62:3171-81. 2011....
The relevance of phylogeny to studies of global changeErika J Edwards
Geography Department and the Institute for Computational Earth System Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Trends Ecol Evol 22:243-9. 2007..We outline how phylogenetics can guide better taxon sampling of key physiological traits, and discuss how the emerging field of phyloinformatics presents a promising new framework for scaling from organism physiology to global processes...
Anatomical enablers and the evolution of C4 photosynthesis in grassesPascal Antoine Christin
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110:1381-6. 2013....
Contemporaneous and recent radiations of the world's major succulent plant lineagesMónica Arakaki
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:8379-84. 2011....
Adaptive evolution of C(4) photosynthesis through recurrent lateral gene transferPascal Antoine Christin
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, 80 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Curr Biol 22:445-9. 2012..This report shows that plant-plant lateral nuclear gene transfers can be a potent source of genetic novelty and adaptation in flowering plants...
Evolution of leaf form correlates with tropical-temperate transitions in Viburnum (Adoxaceae)Samuel B Schmerler
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Proc Biol Sci 279:3905-13. 2012..Our results provide a new theoretical grounding for the inference of past climates using fossil leaf assemblages...
Complex evolutionary transitions and the significance of c(3)-c(4) intermediate forms of photosynthesis in MolluginaceaePascal Antoine Christin
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, 80 Waterman St, Box G W, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Evolution 65:643-60. 2011..These evolutionarily stable transitional stages likely increased the evolvability of C(4) photosynthesis under selection environments brought on by climate and atmospheric change in recent geological time...
Multiple photosynthetic transitions, polyploidy, and lateral gene transfer in the grass subtribe NeurachninaePascal Antoine Christin
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, 80 Waterman St, Providence, RI 02912, USA
J Exp Bot 63:6297-308. 2012....
Improving our understanding of environmental controls on the distribution of C3 and C4 grassesStephanie Pau
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis NCEAS, 735 State Street, Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101, USA
Glob Chang Biol 19:184-96. 2013....
Quantifying succulence: a rapid, physiologically meaningful metric of plant water storageR Matthew Ogburn
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Plant Cell Environ 35:1533-42. 2012..Quantifying SWC(meas) across many taxa showing variation in tissue succulence will provide a new avenue for exploring the evolutionary dynamics of this important ecological adaptation...
Effect of genetic convergence on phylogenetic inferencePascal Antoine Christin
Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Mol Phylogenet Evol 62:921-7. 2012..Therefore, we recommend that, whenever possible, topologies obtained with amino acid sequences and 3rd codon positions be compared to identify potential phylogenetic biases and avoid evolutionarily misleading conclusions...
Ecological physiology of Pereskia guamacho, a cactus with leavesErika J Edwards
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Plant Cell Environ 29:247-56. 2006..We conclude that leaf performance is not limited by stem hydraulic capacity in this species, and that water use is conservative and tightly regulated at the leaf level...
