September 2009, Volume47 Issue 5, Pages 327£­514.

Cover illustration:
Left, intracontinental disjunction in Nolana in the Atacama and Peruvian deserts (Dillon et al., this issue); upper right, hypothesized intercontinental and intracontinental dispersal routes in Ephedra (Ickert-Bond et al., this issue); lower middle, leaf fossil of Aesculus hickeyi S. R. Manchester with five leaflets from the Paleocene of North Dakota, courtesy of Steven R. Manchester; lower right, probabilities of ancestral ranges inferred for sect. Aesculus using the revised Bayes-DIVA method (Harris & Xiang, this issue).


  EDITORIAL
Intercontinental and intracontinental biogeography¡ªpatterns and methods
1 Jun WEN* 2 Qiu-Yun (Jenny) XIANG 3 Hong QIAN 4 Jianhua LI 5 Xiao-Quan WANG 6 Stefanie M. ICKERT-BOND
Journal of Systematics and Evolution 2009 47(5): 327-330
Published Online: September 24, 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-6831.2009.00052.x
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  REVIEWS & RESEARCH ARTICLES
Evolution of the Madrean¨CTethyan disjunctions and the North and South American amphitropical disjunctions in plants
1 Jun WEN* 2 Stefanie M. ICKERT-BOND
Journal of Systematics and Evolution 2009 47(5): 331-348
Published Online: September 24, 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-6831.2009.00054.x
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Estimating ancestral distributions of lineages with uncertain sister groups: a statistical approach to Dispersal–Vicariance Analysis and a case using Aesculus L. (Sapindaceae) including fossils
1 A.J. HARRIS* 1 Qiu-Yun (Jenny) XIANG*
Journal of Systematics and Evolution 2009 47(5): 349-368
Published Online: July 27, 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-6831.2009.00044.x
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Reconstructing ancestral ranges in historical biogeography: properties and prospects
1 Kristin S. LAMM* 1 Benjamin D. REDELINGS
Journal of Systematics and Evolution 2009 47(5): 369 - 382
Published Online: August 20, 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-6831.2009.00042.x
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Effects of taxon sampling on molecular dating for within-genus divergence events, when deep fossils are used for calibration.
1 Richard I. MILNE*
Journal of Systematics and Evolution 2009 47(5): 383 - 401
Published Online: July 8, 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-6831.2009.00038.x
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Molecular phylogeny of Solms-laubachia (Brassicaceae) s.l., based on multiple nuclear and plastid DNA sequences, and its biogeographic implications
1,5Ji-Pei YUE 1Hang SUN 2David A. BAUM 3Jian-Hua LI 4Ihsan A. AL-SHEHBAZ 5Richard REE*
Journal of Systematics and Evolution 2009 47(5): 402-415
Published Online: September 9, 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-6831.2009.00041.x
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Phylogenetic analysis of Toxicodendron (Anacardiaceae) and its biogeographic implications on the evolution of north temperate and tropical intercontinental disjunctions
1,2 Ze-Long NIE 1 Hang SUN 1 Ying MENG 1,3,4 Jun WEN*
Journal of Systematics and Evolution 2009 47(5): 416 - 430
Published Online: July 27, 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-6831.2009.00045.x
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Phylogeny and Evolution of Perezia (Asteraceae: Mutisieae: Nassauviinae)
1Beryl B. SIMPSON 2Mary T. K. ARROYO 1Sandra SIPE 3Marta DIAS de MORAES 1Joshua McDILL
Journal of Systematics and Evolution 2009 47(5): 431-443
Published Online: August 2, 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-6831.2009.00039.x
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A fossil-calibrated relaxed clock for Ephedra indicates an Oligocene age for the divergence of Asian and New World clades and Miocene dispersal into South America
1 Stefanie M. ICKERT-BOND* 2 Catarina RYDIN 3 Susanne S. RENNER
Journal of Systematics and Evolution 2009 47(5): 444-456
Published Online: September 24, 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-6831.2009.00053.x
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Biogeographic diversification in Nolana (Solanaceae), a ubiquitous member of the Atacama and Peruvian Deserts along the western coast of South America
1 Michael O. DILLON 2 Tieyao TU 3 Lei XIE 4 Victor QUIPUSCOA SILVESTRE 3,5 Jun WEN*
Journal of Systematics and Evolution 2009 47(5): 457 - 476
Published Online: September 15, 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-6831.2009.00040.x
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Review of plant biogeographic studies in Brazil
1 Pedro FIASCHI* 2 Jos?R. PIRANI**
Journal of Systematics and Evolution 2009 47(5): 477 - 496
Published Online: July 27, 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-6831.2009.00046.x
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Phylogenetic biogeography and taxonomy of disjunctly distributed bryophytes
1 Jochen HEINRICHS* 1 örn HENTSCHEL1 Kathrin FELDBERG 1 Andrea BOMBOSCH 2 Harald SCHNEIDER
Journal of Systematics and Evolution 2009 47(5): 497-508
Published Online: June 30, 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-6831.2009.00028.x
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Global comparisons of beta diversity among mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians across spatial scales and taxonomic ranks
1 Hong QIAN*
Journal of Systematics and Evolution 2009 47(5): 509-514
Published Online: July 27, 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-6831.2009.00043.x
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