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2025, Journal of Experimental Botany
Are Cactus Spines Modified Leaves? Morphological and Anatomical Characterization of Saguaro Seedlings (Carnegiea gigantea) with Special Focus on Aerial Organ Primordia
2024, Plants
Divergent structural leaf trait spectra in succulent versus non-succulent plant taxa
2024, Annals of Botany
Identifying the multiple drivers of cactus diversification
2024, Nature Communications
Geographical and life-history traits associated with low and high species richness across angiosperm families
2023, Frontiers in Plant Sciences
Global change impacts on cacti (Cactaceae): current threats, challenges and
conservation solutions
2023, Annals of Botany
Genomic and Morphological Differentiation of Spirit Producing Agave angustifolia Traditional Landraces Cultivated in Jalisco, Mexico
2022, Plants
A comparative genomics examination of desiccation tolerance and sensitivity in two sister grass species
2022, PNAS
Speciation across the Tree of Life
2021, Biological Reviews
Why Are There So Many Flowering Plants? A Multiscale Analysis of Plant Diversification
2020, The American Naturalist
Evolution and Diversity of the Wild Rice Oryza officinalis Complex, across Continents, Genome Types, and Ploidy Levels
2020, Genome Biology and Evolution
Evolutionary rates and adaptive radiations
2019, Biology & Philosophy
Phylogenetic Relationships and Evolutionary
Trends in the Cactus Family
2018, Journal of Heredity
Life form evolution in epidendroid orchids: Ecological consequences of the shift from epiphytism to terrestrial habit in Hexalectris
2016, Taxon
Phylogeny and Biogeographic History of Astrophytum (Cactaceae)
2015, Systematic Botany
A metacalibrated time‐tree documents the early rise of flowering plant phylogenetic diversity
2015, New Phytologist
Beyond aridification: multiple explanations for the elevated diversification of cacti in the New World Succulent Biome
2014, New Phytologist
Evaluating the phylogenetic position of the monotypic family Halophytaceae (Portulacinae, Caryophyllales) based on plastid and nuclear molecular data sets
2014, Botanical Sciences
Quaternary origin and genetic divergence of
the endemic cactus Mammillaria pectinifera
in a changing landscape in the Tehuacán
Valley, Mexico
2014, Genetics and Molecular Research
Molecular evidence for the origin and evolutionary history of the rare American desert monotypic family Setchellanthaceae
2013, Organisms Diversity & Evolution
Phylogenetic relationships and evolution of growth form in Cactaceae (Caryophyllales, Eudicotyledoneae)
2011, American journal of Botany
Functional Diversification of B MADS-Box Homeotic Regulators of Flower Development: Adaptive Evolution in Protein–Protein Interaction Domains after Major Gene Duplication Events
2007, Molecular Biology and Evolution
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