Recently, the team of Chen Zhiduan, a researcher at the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, took the genus Escarphetaceae as the research object, and obtained more than 80% of the species (96/120) of the genus Escarphet.
Asia and Australia are located on both sides of Southeast Asia, where the geological environment is complex, and their unique and interconnected floristic composition has attracted extensive attention from scholars
Previous studies have shown that the exchange of Asian-Australian flora mostly occurred after the collision of the Asian and Australian plates in the Miocene, and there were more southward spreading events from Asia to Australia than the reverse
The research team discovered that the genus Escherichia originated in the Asian continent in the early Eocene
Since the Asian continent is the origin and diversity center of the genus Climbing, the biogeographic history of this genus reflects the tendency of organisms to spread more easily from areas with high species diversity to areas with low species diversity
This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the pilot project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Category B) and other projects
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https://doi.
org/10.
1111/cla.
12462
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