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  1. Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, 110 007, India

    R Geeta

  2. Departamento de Botânica, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 277, 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Lúcia G Lohmann

  3. Departamento de Botanica, Instituto de Biologıa, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 3er Circuito de Ciudad Universitaria, Del. Coyoacan, Mexico, D.F., 04510, Mexico

    Susana Magallón

  4. The Australian Museum, 6 College St., Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia

    Daniel P Faith

  5. Redpath Museum and Department of Biology, McGill University, 859 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2K6

    Andrew Hendry

  6. Computational Biology Institute, George Washington University, Ashburn, VA, 20147, USA

    Keith Crandall

  7. Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Charles Deberiostraat 32 bus 2439, B-3000, Leuven, Belgium

    Luc de Meester

  8. 1300 Centre Street, Boston, MA, 02131, USA

    Cam Webb

  9. DIVERSITAS, c/o Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Maison Buffon, 57 rue Cuvier - CP 41, 75231, Paris Cedex 05, France

    Anne-Hélène Prieur-Richard

  10. Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, Tamagawa University, 6-1-1 Tamagawa-Gakuen, Machida, Tokyo, 194-8610, Japan

    Makiko Mimura

  11. Institute of Systematic Botany and Botanic Garden, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008, Zurich, Switzerland

    Elena Conti

  12. Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St., New York, NY, 10024, USA

    Joel Cracraft

  13. Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3DS, UK

    Felix Forest

  14. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama city, Panama

    Carlos Jaramillo

  15. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 21 Sachem Street, P.O. Box 208105, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA

    Michael Donoghue

  16. Department of Biology, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812- 8581, Japan

    Tetsukazu Yahara

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Geeta, R., Lohmann, L.G., Magallón, S. et al. Biodiversity only makes sense in the light of evolution. J Biosci 39, 333–337 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12038-014-9427-y

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