Bayesian estimation of the global biogeographical history of the Solanaceae

Aim The tomato family Solanaceae is distributed on all major continents except Antarctica and has its centre of diversity in South America. Its worldwide distribution suggests multiple long‐distance dispersals within and between the New and Old Worlds. Here, we apply maximum likelihood ( ML ) methods and newly developed biogeographical stochastic mapping ( BSM ) to infer the ancestral range of the family and to estimate the frequency of...