Philippe Küpfer

TL;DR: The relevance of particular ecological factors in shaping genetic patterns, which should be considered when modelling species projective distributions under climate change scenarios, are demonstrated.

TL;DR: The ITS phylogenies reveal that extant Impatiens species are of Southeast Asian origin, from where dispersals to boreal Eurasia and North America, to central Asia and eastern Europe via the Himalayas, and to India and Africa have occurred.

TL;DR: This work tests whether the genetic and species levels of biodiversity co-vary, using a large-scale and multi-species approach and demonstrates that species richness and genetic diversity are not correlated.

TL;DR: A phylogenetic analysis of Sapindaceae based on eight DNA sequence regions from the plastid and nuclear genomes and including 85 of the 141 genera defined within the family confirms a high level of paraphyly and polyphyly at the subfamilial and tribal levels and even contest the monophyletic status of several genera.

TL;DR: The molecular dating analysis demonstrates that the radiation is too recent to be associated with the Gondwanan continental breakup, and Ancestral area reconstruction suggests that Exacum originated in Madagascar, and divergence dating suggests its origin was not before the Eocene.