Darwin's abominable mystery: Insights from a supertree of the angiosperms

By T. Jonathan Davies, T. Barraclough, Mark W. Chase, Pamela S. Soltis, D. Soltis, V. Savolainen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Paleontology

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Function and Evolution of Aggregated Pollen in Angiosperms (2008, background): “1.12; Maddison and Maddison 2006) of the occurrence of pollen aggregation based on the phylogenic tree of Davies et al. (2004) suggests that aggregated pollen has evolved independently at least 39 times.”
Estimating the wood density of species for carbon stock assessments (2011, methodology): “2009) with phylogenetic relatedness information based on super-trees at the family and the genus levels (Chaw et al. 2000; Davies et al. 2004) to assess the effectiveness of alternative approaches to wood density estimation.”
The evolution of supertrees. (2004, neutral): “Angiosperms (flowering plants) Family 379 MRP 46 [ 69 ] Apiales (umbelliferous plants) ,Family 212 MRP 11 [68]”
On the origin of southern African subtropical thicket vegetation (2005, background): “Precise dating for diversification in other thicket plant lineages is lacking; however, the available estimates (Davies et al. 2004) indicate that many families with strong succulent and geophytic contingents could have originated in the Eocene, this being the epoch of rapid splitting in both Aspara”
Convergent evolution of seed dispersal by ants, and phylogeny and biogeography in flowering plants: A global survey (2010, methodology): “We used a dated phylogenetic supertree of angiosperm families (Davies et al., 2004a) to study the phylogenetic distribution of families with myrmecochorous genera.”
Emerging patterns in the comparative analysis of phylogenetic community structure (2009, background): “…of many molecular systematists, so supertrees are available with largely well-resolved ordinal and family relationships (e.g. Stevens 2001 onwards; Davies et al. 2004; however, the lack of much within-family resolution limits the power of many plant-based analyses and means that many of the…”
Testing the spatial phylogenetic structure of local communities: statistical performances of different null models and test statistics on a locally neutral community (2008, methodology): “The species phylogeny for the 227 BCI species was constructed from a dated phylogenetic tree of all angiosperm families (Davies et al. 2004) using the Phylomatic software (Webb & Donoghue 2005).”
Evolutionary history and the effect of biodiversity on plant productivity (2008, methodology): “(39) supertree and generated a phylogeny for our species list by using Phylomatic (40).”
Time Tree of Rubiaceae: Phylogeny and Dating the Family, Subfamilies, and Tribes (2009, background): “7), congruent with earlier results (Andreasen and Bremer 1996, 2000; Davis et al. 2007).”
Characterizing the phylogenetic structure of communities by an additive partitioning of phylogenetic diversity (2007, background): “…have very large confidence intervals and published trees can provide fairly different clade ages according to the set of species used and the gene regions analysed (e.g. the age of Malpighiales is 114 Myr according to Davis et al. 2005 whereas we considered 79 Myr following Davies et al. 2004).”
Associations between floral specialization and species diversity: cause, effect, or correlation? (2008, background): “…comes from broad-scale studies by Ricklefs and Renner (1994), Dodd et al. (2000), Verdu (2002), and Jesson (2007) who showed that more species occur in lineages with specialized animal pollination than sister lineages with abiotic pollination (but see Bolmgren et al. 2003; Davies et al. 2004).”
Using functional traits and phylogenetic trees to examine the assembly of tropical tree communities (2012, methodology): “Additionally, Davies et al. (2004) dated the tree using Sanderson (1997)’s nonparametric rate smoothing method and a single calibration point (the Fa- gales-Cucurbitales split).”