Using plastid genome-scale data to resolve enigmatic relationships among basal angiosperms

MJ Moore, CD Bell, PS Soltis… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
… Perhaps the last great question remaining in basal angiosperm phylogeny involves the …
all major basal angiosperm lineages. We also report the complete plastid genome sequence of …

Genome-scale data, angiosperm relationships, and 'ending incongruence': a cautionary tale in phylogenetics

DE Soltis, VA Albert, V Savolainen, K Hilu, YL Qiu… - Trends in plant …, 2004 - cell.com
… extant angiosperms, highlighting the limits of phylogenetics when whole … genome of
Nymphaea alba, whole-genome analyses and the problem of identifying the most basal angiosperm

Identifying the basal angiosperm node in chloroplast genome phylogenies: sampling one's way out of the Felsenstein zone

J Leebens-Mack, LA Raubeson, L Cui… - Molecular Biology …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
… If some speciation events that gave rise to basal angiosperm lineages … in genome-scale
studies with adequate taxon sampling. In order to explore timing of major events in angiosperm

Analysis of 81 genes from 64 plastid genomes resolves relationships in angiosperms and identifies genome-scale evolutionary patterns

RK Jansen, Z Cai, LA Raubeson… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
… Current genomic sequencing … for basal angiosperms are growing rapidly (31). An organismal
context is essential for interpretation of nuclear gene phylogenies and the complex gene

Assembly and Validation of the Genome of the Nonmodel Basal Angiosperm Amborella

S Chamala, AS Chanderbali, JP Der, T Lan, B Walts… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Genome sequencing with next-generation sequence (NGS) technologies can now be applied
to organisms pivotal to addressing fundamental biological questions, but with genomes

Floral gene resources from basal angiosperms for comparative genomics research

VA Albert, DE Soltis, JE Carlson, WG Farmerie… - BMC plant biology, 2005 - Springer
… Here we discuss new genomicbasal angiosperms specifically selected to bridge the
evolutionary gaps between model plants and provide insights into gene content and genome

Reconstructing the basal angiosperm phylogeny: evaluating information content of mitochondrial genes

YL Qiu, L Li, TA Hendry, R Li, DW Taylor, MJ Issa… - Taxon, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… from both mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes, to assess relative … the basal angiosperm
relationships, particularly on controversy surrounding the basalmost node of the angiosperm

Phylogeny of basal angiosperms: analyses of five genes from three genomes

YL Qiu, J Lee, F Bernasconi-Quadroni… - … Journal of Plant …, 2000 - journals.uchicago.edu
… Reconstruction of basal angiosperm phylogeny is intimately related to our understanding
of relationships among extant gymnosperms. As such, our experimental design in this study …

Evolution of genome size in the angiosperms

DE Soltis, PS Soltis, MD Bennett… - American Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… of extant angiosperms have a very small genome, but our … very small genome was ancestral
throughout basal angiosperms, … basal angiosperms, Amborella has a very small genome, as …

Floral variation and floral genetics in basal angiosperms

PS Soltis, SF Brockington, MJ Yoo… - American Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… ) as sisters to all remaining extant angiosperms (eg, 164; Piedrahita et al., … basal angiosperms,
we obtained sequences from the inverted repeat (IR) region of the plastid genomes of …