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Open AccessOak leaf morphology may be more strongly shaped by climate than by phylogeny
Despite been grown under the same climate, oak species are able to correlate with looser, but still identifiable, leaf morphological syndromes, composed by morphological traits with an ecological role in their...
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Open AccessAncient events and climate adaptive capacity shaped distinct chloroplast genetic structure in the oak lineages
Understanding the origin of genetic variation is the key to predict how species will respond to future climate change. The genus Quercus is a species-rich and ecologically diverse woody genus that dominates a wid...
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Open AccessAccelerated evolutionary rates in tropical and oceanic parmelioid lichens (Ascomycota)
The rate of nucleotide substitutions is not constant across the Tree of Life, and departures from a molecular clock have been commonly reported. Within parmelioid lichens, the largest group of macrolichens, la...
