Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Plant Evolution and Biodiversity in the Caribbean Islands–Perspectives from Molecular Markers

  • Published:
The Botanical Review Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Literature Cited

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. 2007. Flora of the West Indies. National Museum of Natural History, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Published in the Internet: http://persoon.si.edu/antilles/westindies/index.htm.

  • Barber, J. C., Finch, C. C., Francisco-Ortega, J., Santos-Guerra, A. A., Jansen, R. K. 2007. Hybridization in Macaronesian Sideritis (Lamiaceae): evidence from incongruence of multiple independent nuclear and chloroplast sequence datasets. Taxon. 56:74-88.

    Google Scholar 

  • Eastwood, A., Gibby, M., Cronk, Q. C. B. 2004. Evolution of St Helena arborescent Astereae (Asteraceae): relationships of the genera Commidendrum and Melanodendron. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 144:69-83.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Eggens, F., Popp, M., Nepokroeff, M., Wagner, W.L., Oxelman, B. B. 2007. The origin and number of introductions of the Hawaiian endemic Silene species (Caryophyllaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 94:210-218.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Francisco-Ortega, J., Santiago-Valentín, E., Acevedo-Rodríguez, P., Lewis, C., Pipoly, J. III, Meerow, A. W., Maunder, M. 2007. Seed plant genera endemic to the Caribbean Island biodiversity hotspot: a review and a molecular phylogenetic perspective. Bot. Rev. 73:183-234.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Francisco-Ortega, J., Ventosa, I., Oviedo, R., Jiménez, F., Herrera, P., Maunder, M., Panero, J. L. In press. Caribbean Island Asteraceae: Systematics, molecules, and conservation on a biodiversity hotspot. Bot. Rev.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fritsch, P. W., McDowell, T. D. 2003. Biogeography and phylogeny of Caribbean plants–Introduction. Syst. Bot. 28:376-377.

    Google Scholar 

  • Maunder, M., Leiva, A., Santiago-Valentín, E., Stevenson, D. W., Acevedo-Rodríguez, P., Meerow, A. W., Mejía, M., Clubbe, C., Francisco-Ortega, J. In press. Plant conservation in the Caribbean Island Biodiversity Hotspot. Bot. Rev.

    Google Scholar 

  • Michelangeli, F. A., Francisco-Ortega, J., González, D., Jaramillo, A., Ruiz, E., Santiago-Valentín, E., Vovides, A.P. 2004a. Plant molecular systematics in Latin America: status, realities, and perspectives. Taxon. 53:265-268.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mittermeier, R. A., Gil, R. R., Hoffman, M., Pilgrim, J., Brooks T., Mittermeier, C. G., Lamoreux, J., da Fonseca, G. A. B. (eds) 2004. Hotspots revisited: Earth's biologically richest and most threatened terrestrial ecoregions. CEMEX, Mexico D.F.

  • Ruiz, E., Crawford, D. J., Stuessy, T. F., Gonzalez, F., Samuel, R., Becerra, J., Silva, M. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships and genetic divergence among endemic species of Berberis, Gunnera, Myrceugenia and Sophora of the Juan Fernandez Islands (Chile) and their continental progenitors based on isozymes and nrITS sequences. Taxon. 53:321-332.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Santiago-Valentín, E., Olmstead, R. G. 2004. Historical biogeography of Caribbean plants: introduction to current knowledge and possibilities from a phylogenetic perspective. Taxon. 53:299-319.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Takayama, K., Ohi-Toma, T., Kudoh, H., Kato, H. 2005. Origin and diversification of Hibiscus glaber, species endemic to the oceanic Bonin Islands, revealed by chloroplast DNA polymorphism. Molec. Ecol. 14:1059-1071.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Wagstaff, S. J., Breitwieser, I. 2004. Phylogeny and classification of Brachyglottis (Senecioneae, Asteraceae): An example of a rapid species radiation in New Zealand. Syst. Bot. 29:1003-1010.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

Our gratitude to Dennis Stevenson for critically reading this introductory paper and for his generous time, help and input in putting together the papers found in this special issue of Botanical Review. Thanks are also due to for Milciades Mejía who invited and encouraged us to organize the symposium on “Evolution on the Antilles: the Molecular Perspective” during the 9th Latin American Botanical Congress (June 2006). Eugenio Santiago thanks NSF-CREST grant (HRD # 026200) to the University of Puerto Rico – Río Piedras Campus, Javier Francisco-Ortega thanks Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden and the Arts and Science College of Florida International University for providing financial and logistic support for the preparation of the symposium and of this special issue of Botanical Review. This is contribution number 142 from the Tropical Biology Program of FIU.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Jardín Botánico, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Apartado Postal 364984, San Juan, PR, 00936, USA

    Eugenio Santiago-Valentín

  2. Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, Apartado Postal 23360, San Juan, PR, 00931-3360, USA

    Eugenio Santiago-Valentín

  3. Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33199, USA

    Javier Francisco-Ortega

  4. Center for Tropical Plant Conservation, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, Miami, FL, 33156, USA

    Javier Francisco-Ortega

Authors
  1. Eugenio Santiago-Valentín
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Javier Francisco-Ortega
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Javier Francisco-Ortega.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Santiago-Valentín, E., Francisco-Ortega, J. Plant Evolution and Biodiversity in the Caribbean Islands–Perspectives from Molecular Markers. Bot. Rev 74, 1–4 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12229-008-9001-0

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12229-008-9001-0

Keywords

Search

Navigation