Publications

Our first landmark paper came out in 2017:

  • Sauquet H, von Balthazar M, Magallón S, Doyle JA, Endress PK, Bailes EJ, Barroso de Morais E, Bull-Hereñu K, Carrive L, Chartier M, Chomicki G, Coiro M, Cornette R, El Ottra JHL, Epicoco C, Foster CSP, Jabbour F, Haevermans A, Haevermans T, Hernández R, Little SA, Löfstrand S, Luna JA, Massoni J, Nadot S, Pamperl S, Prieu C, Reyes E, dos Santos P, Schoonderwoerd KM, Sontag S, Soulebeau A, Staedler Y, Tschan GF, Wing-Sze Leung A, Schönenberger J. 2017. The ancestral flower of angiosperms and its early diversification. Nature Communications 8: 16047. link dataset

In addition, the PROTEUS database was used to prepare morphological datasets for the following papers:

  • Chartier M, Balthazar M, Sontag S, Löfstrand S, Palme T, Jabbour F, Sauquet H, Schönenberger J. 2021. Global patterns and a latitudinal gradient of flower disparity: perspectives from the angiosperm order Ericales. New Phytologist 230: 821–831. link dataset
  • Schönenberger J, von Balthazar M, López Martínez A, Albert B, Prieu C, Magallón S, Sauquet H. 2020. Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm‐wide data set: proof‐of‐concept and challenges ahead. American Journal of Botany 107: 1–16. link dataset
  • Carrive L, Domenech B, Sauquet H, Jabbour F, Damerval C, Nadot S. 2020. Insights into the ancestral flowers of Ranunculales. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 194: 23–46. link dataset
  • Onstein RE, Kissling WD, Chatrou LW, Couvreur TLP, Morlon H, Sauquet H. 2019. Which frugivory‐related traits facilitated historical long‐distance dispersal in the custard apple family (Annonaceae)? Journal of Biogeography 46: 1874–1888. link dataset
  • Zhang Q, Onstein RE, Little SA, Sauquet H. 2019. Estimating divergence times and ancestral breeding systems in Ficus and Moraceae. Annals of Botany 123: 191–204. link dataset
  • Reyes E, Nadot S, von Balthazar M, Schönenberger J, Sauquet H. 2018. Testing the impact of morphological rate heterogeneity on ancestral state reconstruction of five floral traits in angiosperms. Scientific Reports 8: 9473. link dataset
  • Sauquet H, von Balthazar M, Doyle JA, Endress PK, Magallón S, Staedler Y, Schönenberger J. 2018. Challenges and questions in reconstructing the ancestral flower of angiosperms: A reply to Sokoloff et al. American Journal of Botany 105: 1–9. link dataset
  • Chartier M, Löfstrand S, von Balthazar M, Gerber S, Jabbour F, Sauquet H, Schönenberger J. 2017. How (much) do flowers vary? Unbalanced disparity among flower functional modules and a mosaic pattern of morphospace occupation in the order Ericales. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284: 20170066. link dataset
  • Citerne HL, Reyes E, Le Guilloux M, Delannoy E, Simonnet F, Sauquet H, Weston PH, Nadot S, Damerval C. 2017. Characterization of CYCLOIDEA-like genes in Proteaceae, a basal eudicot family with multiple shifts in floral symmetry. Annals of Botany 119: 367–378. link dataset
  • Inácio CD, Chauveau O, Souza-Chies TT, Sauquet H, Eggers L. 2017. An updated phylogeny and infrageneric classification of the genus Sisyrinchium (Iridaceae): challenges of molecular and morphological evidence. Taxon 66: 1317–1348. link dataset
  • Nadot S, Alapetite E, Baker WJ, Tregear JW, Barfod AS. 2016. The palm family (Arecaceae): a microcosm of sexual system evolution. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 182: 376–388. link
  • Prieu C, Sauquet H, Gouyon P-H, Albert B. 2017. More than sixty origins of pantoporate pollen in angiosperms. American Journal of Botany 104: 1–9. link dataset
  • Reyes E, Sauquet H, Nadot S. 2016. Perianth symmetry changed at least 199 times in angiosperm evolution. Taxon 65: 945–964. link dataset
  • Sauquet H, Carrive L, Poullain N, Sannier J, Damerval C, Nadot S. 2015. Zygomorphy evolved from disymmetry in Fumarioideae (Papaveraceae, Ranunculales): new evidence from an expanded molecular phylogenetic framework. Annals of Botany 115: 895–914. link dataset

PROTEUS was also used to prepare the fossil calibration dataset for the following paper:

  • Ramírez-Barahona S, Sauquet H, Magallón S. 2020. The delayed and geographically heterogeneous diversification of flowering plant families. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4: 1232–1238. link dataset
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith