Identification of shared single copy nuclear genes in Arabidopsis, Populus, Vitis and Oryzaand their phylogenetic utility across various taxonomic levels

JM Duarte, PK Wall, PP Edger, LL Landherr… - BMC evolutionary …, 2010 - Springer
Background Although the overwhelming majority of genes found in angiosperms are
members of gene families, and both gene-and genome-duplication are pervasive forces in …

Use of nuclear genes for phylogeny reconstruction in plants

RL Small, RC Cronn, JF Wendel - Australian Systematic Botany, 2004 - CSIRO Publishing
Molecular data have had a profound impact on the field of plant systematics, and the
application of DNA-sequence data to phylogenetic problems is now routine. The majority of …

Utility of low-copy nuclear gene sequences in plant phylogenetics

T Sang - Critical reviews in Biochemistry and molecular biology, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Low-copy nuclear genes in plants are a rich source of phylogenetic information. They hold a
great potential to improve the robustness of phylogenetic reconstruction at all taxonomic …

Reprint of: using nuclear gene data for plant phylogenetics: progress and prospects

EA Zimmer, J Wen - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2013 - Elsevier
The paper reviews the current state of low and single copy nuclear markers that have been
applied successfully in plant phylogenetics to date, and discusses case studies highlighting …

The continuing search: low-copy nuclear sequences for lower-level plant molecular phylogenetic studies

ME Mort, DJ Crawford - Taxon, 2004 - JSTOR
A recent survey by Alvarez & Wendel (2003) revealed that during a five-year period over
65% of all molecular phylogenetic studies of plants at the generic level or lower included …

Using nuclear gene data for plant phylogenetics: Progress and prospects II. Next‐gen approaches

EA Zimmer, J Wen - Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Single and low copy nuclear genes offer a larger number of, and more rapidly evolving,
characters than the chloroplast and nuclear ribosomal gene sequences that have dominated …

Single-copy genes as molecular markers for phylogenomic studies in seed plants

Z Li, AR De La Torre, L Sterck… - Genome Biology and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenetic relationships among seed plant taxa, especially within the gymnosperms,
remain contested. In contrast to angiosperms, for which several genomic, transcriptomic and …

Combining bioinformatics and phylogenetics to identify large sets of single-copy orthologous genes (COSII) for comparative, evolutionary and systematic studies: a …

F Wu, LA Mueller, D Crouzillat, V Pétiard… - Genetics, 2006 - academic.oup.com
We report herein the application of a set of algorithms to identify a large number (2869) of
single-copy orthologs (COSII), which are shared by most, if not all, euasterid plant species …

How many genes are there in plants (… and why are they there)?

L Sterck, S Rombauts, K Vandepoele, P Rouze… - Current opinion in plant …, 2007 - Elsevier
Annotation of the first few complete plant genomes has revealed that plants have many
genes. For Arabidopsis, over 26500 gene loci have been predicted, whereas for rice, the …

The evolution of nuclear genome structure in seed plants

EA Kellogg, JL Bennetzen - American journal of botany, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Plant nuclear genomes exhibit extensive structural variation in size, chromosome number,
number and arrangement of genes, and number of genome copies per nucleus. This …