Phylogeny of Land Plants
Phylogenetic trees with reliable statistical confidences are the basis for evolutionary biology. We proposed monophyly of extant gymnosperms (Hasebe et al. 1992), phylogeny of major groups of ferns (Hasebe et al. 1994, 1995), and monophyly of extant three groups of bryophytes: hornworts, liverworts, and mosses (Nishiyama et al. 2004 Mol. Biol. Evol. 21: 1813). We also inferred phylogeny of Acer (Hasebe et al. 1998 J. Plant Res. 111: 441), Coriaria (Yokoyama et al. 2000 Mol. Phyl. Evol. 14: 11), Drosera (Rivadavia et al. 2003 Amer. J. Bot. 90: 123), some ferns (Sano et al. 2000a J. Plant Res. 113: 157; Sano et al. 2000b Acta Phytotaxa Geobot. 51: 17; Sano et al. 2000c Mol. Phyl. Evol. 15: 403).
We have also studied the phylogeny of butterflies (Tanikawa-Dodo et al. 2008 Trans. Lepid. Soc. Japan 59: 29; Ohshima et al. Mol. Phyl. Evol. 2010 ****).
