Nature Communications (Aug 2017)
The ancestral flower of angiosperms and its early diversification
- Hervé Sauquet,
- Maria von Balthazar,
- Susana Magallón,
- James A. Doyle,
- Peter K. Endress,
- Emily J. Bailes,
- Erica Barroso de Morais,
- Kester Bull-Hereñu,
- Laetitia Carrive,
- Marion Chartier,
- Guillaume Chomicki,
- Mario Coiro,
- Raphaël Cornette,
- Juliana H. L. El Ottra,
- Cyril Epicoco,
- Charles S. P. Foster,
- Florian Jabbour,
- Agathe Haevermans,
- Thomas Haevermans,
- Rebeca Hernández,
- Stefan A. Little,
- Stefan Löfstrand,
- Javier A. Luna,
- Julien Massoni,
- Sophie Nadot,
- Susanne Pamperl,
- Charlotte Prieu,
- Elisabeth Reyes,
- Patrícia dos Santos,
- Kristel M. Schoonderwoerd,
- Susanne Sontag,
- Anaëlle Soulebeau,
- Yannick Staedler,
- Georg F. Tschan,
- Amy Wing-Sze Leung,
- Jürg Schönenberger
Affiliations
- Hervé Sauquet
- Laboratoire Écologie, Systématique, Évolution, Université Paris-Sud
- Maria von Balthazar
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna
- Susana Magallón
- Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán
- James A. Doyle
- Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California
- Peter K. Endress
- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich
- Emily J. Bailes
- School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Erica Barroso de Morais
- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich
- Kester Bull-Hereñu
- Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- Laetitia Carrive
- Laboratoire Écologie, Systématique, Évolution, Université Paris-Sud
- Marion Chartier
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna
- Guillaume Chomicki
- Department of Biology, Systematic Botany and Mycology, University of Munich LMU
- Mario Coiro
- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich
- Raphaël Cornette
- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
- Juliana H. L. El Ottra
- Laboratório de Sistemática Vegetal, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão
- Cyril Epicoco
- Laboratoire Écologie, Systématique, Évolution, Université Paris-Sud
- Charles S. P. Foster
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
- Florian Jabbour
- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
- Agathe Haevermans
- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
- Thomas Haevermans
- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
- Rebeca Hernández
- Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán
- Stefan A. Little
- Laboratoire Écologie, Systématique, Évolution, Université Paris-Sud
- Stefan Löfstrand
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna
- Javier A. Luna
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
- Julien Massoni
- Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich
- Sophie Nadot
- Laboratoire Écologie, Systématique, Évolution, Université Paris-Sud
- Susanne Pamperl
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna
- Charlotte Prieu
- Laboratoire Écologie, Systématique, Évolution, Université Paris-Sud
- Elisabeth Reyes
- Laboratoire Écologie, Systématique, Évolution, Université Paris-Sud
- Patrícia dos Santos
- Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
- Kristel M. Schoonderwoerd
- Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
- Susanne Sontag
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna
- Anaëlle Soulebeau
- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
- Yannick Staedler
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna
- Georg F. Tschan
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg
- Amy Wing-Sze Leung
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
- Jürg Schönenberger
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16047
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 8,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
The fossil record of flowers is limited, necessitating other approaches to understanding floral evolution. Here, Sauquet and colleagues reconstruct the characteristics and diversification of ancient angiosperm flowers by combining models of flower evolution with an extensive database of extant floral traits.
