Mats Thulin

TL;DR: Penalized likelihood estimated ages of both densely sampled intracontinental and sparsely sampled transcontinental crown clades in the legume family show a mostly Quaternary to Neogene age distribution, with young age estimates detected despite methodological approaches that bias results toward older ages.

TL;DR: A molecular biogeographic study in the legume family that suggests a vicariant biogeographical relationship between Africa and North America is presented, and is likely to be shown with additional phylogenetic analysis to be prevalent among legume groups and other taxa that diversified during the Tertiary in seasonally dry tropical vegetation.

TL;DR: Phylogenetic analysis of noncoding trnL plastid DNA sequences and morphological data for 43 species of Zygophylloideae, representing most of the morphological and geographical variation in the subfamily, indicates that the currently recognised genera Augea, Tetraena, and Fagonia are embedded inZygophyllum.

TL;DR: A molecular phylogenetic analysis was undertaken in the effort to resolve long-standing taxonomic questions centered on floral morphology and resolved six well-supported clades of American Vigna that are most closely related to other American genera.

TL;DR: The investigation of molecular data neither supports the phylogeny of Andersson nor the classification of Robbrecht, but instead indicates totally new relationships ofIsertieae, Mussaendeae, andSabiceeae.