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Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 0. [Full Text]  

Invited Special Paper:

Jeffrey D. Palmer, Douglas E. Soltis, and Mark W. Chase

The plant tree of life: an overview and some points of view
Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 1437-1445. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

François Lutzoni, Frank Kauff, Cymon J. Cox, David McLaughlin, Gail Celio, Bryn Dentinger, Mahajabeen Padamsee, David Hibbett, Timothy Y. James, Elisabeth Baloch, Martin Grube, Valérie Reeb, Valérie Hofstetter, Conrad Schoch, A. Elizabeth Arnold, Jolanta Miadlikowska, Joseph Spatafora, Desiree Johnson, Sarah Hambleton, Michael Crockett, Robert Shoemaker, Gi-Ho Sung, Robert Lücking, Thorsten Lumbsch, Kerry O'Donnell, Manfred Binder, Paul Diederich, Damien Ertz, Cécile Gueidan, Karen Hansen, Richard C. Harris, Kentaro Hosaka, Young-Woon Lim, Brandon Matheny, Hiromi Nishida, Don Pfister, Jack Rogers, Amy Rossman, Imke Schmitt, Harrie Sipman, Jeffrey Stone, Junta Sugiyama, Rebecca Yahr, and Rytas Vilgalys

Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits
Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 1446-1480. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supplementary Data][Erratum]  

Patrick J. Keeling

Diversity and evolutionary history of plastids and their hosts
Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 1481-1493. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Gary W. Saunders and Max H. Hommersand

Assessing red algal supraordinal diversity and taxonomy in the context of contemporary systematic data
Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 1494-1507. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Robert A. Andersen

Biology and systematics of heterokont and haptophyte algae
Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 1508-1522. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Jeremiah D. Hackett, Donald M. Anderson, Deana L. Erdner, and Debashish Bhattacharya

Dinoflagellates: a remarkable evolutionary experiment
Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 1523-1534. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Louise A. Lewis and Richard M. McCourt

Green algae and the origin of land plants
Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 1535-1556. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supplementary Data]  

Jonathan Shaw and Karen Renzaglia

Phylogeny and diversification of bryophytes
Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 1557-1581. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Kathleen M. Pryer, Eric Schuettpelz, Paul G. Wolf, Harald Schneider, Alan R. Smith, and Raymond Cranfill

Phylogeny and evolution of ferns (monilophytes) with a focus on the early leptosporangiate divergences
Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 1582-1598. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Supplementary Data]  

J. Gordon Burleigh and Sarah Mathews

Phylogenetic signal in nucleotide data from seed plants: implications for resolving the seed plant tree of life
Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 1599-1613. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Pamela S. Soltis and Douglas E. Soltis

The origin and diversification of angiosperms
Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 1614-1626. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Walter S. Judd and Richard G. Olmstead

A survey of tricolpate (eudicot) phylogenetic relationships
Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 1627-1644. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Mark W. Chase

Monocot relationships: an overview
Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 1645-1655. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Michael J. Sanderson, Jeffrey L. Thorne, Niklas Wikström, and Kåre Bremer

Molecular evidence on plant divergence times
Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 1656-1665. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

William L. Crepet, Kevin C. Nixon, and Maria A. Gandolfo

Fossil evidence and phylogeny: the age of major angiosperm clades based on mesofossil and macrofossil evidence from Cretaceous deposits
Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 1666-1682. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Peter R. Crane, Patrick Herendeen, and Else Marie Friis

Fossils and plant phylogeny
Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 1683-1699. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

C. Randal Linder and Loren H. Rieseberg

Reconstructing patterns of reticulate evolution in plants
Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 1700-1708. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Elizabeth A. Kellogg and Jeffrey L. Bennetzen

The evolution of nuclear genome structure in seed plants
Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 1709-1725. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

William E. Friedman, Richard C. Moore, and Michael D. Purugganan

The evolution of plant development
Am. J. Bot. 2004 91: 1726-1741. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

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