Carl J. Rothfels

TL;DR: Strong and robust support is found for a sister-group relationship between land plants and one group of streptophyte green algae, the Zygnematophyceae, and suggests that phylogenetic hypotheses used to understand the evolution of fundamental plant traits should be reevaluated.

TL;DR: A modern, comprehensive classification for lycophytes and ferns, down to the genus level, utilizing a community‐based approach, that uses monophyly as the primary criterion for the recognition of taxa, but also aims to preserve existing taxa and circumscriptions that are both widely accepted and consistent with the understanding of pteridophyte phylogeny.

TL;DR: How to access the data used in a phylogenomics analysis of the first 85 species, and how to visualize the gene and species trees of the 1KP project.

TL;DR: Likelihood-based analyses indicate that polyploids generally exhibit lower speciation rates and higher extinction rates than diploids, providing the first quantitative corroboration of the dead-end hypothesis.

TL;DR: The genomes of two fern species, Azolla filiculoides and Salvinia cucullata, are reported and insights into fern-specific whole-genome duplications, f Fern-specific insect-resistant gene evolution and fern–cyanobacterial symbiosis are provided.