Phylogenomics and the flowering plant tree of life

C Guo, Y Luo, LM Gao, TS Yi, HT Li… - Journal of Integrative …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The advances accelerated by next‐generation sequencing and long‐read sequencing
technologies continue to provide an impetus for plant phylogenetic study. In the past …

Polyploid phylogenetics

CJ Rothfels - New Phytologist, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Polyploidy is a dominant feature of extant plant diversity. However, major research
questions, including whether polyploidy is important to long‐term evolution or is just …

Parallel ddRAD and genome skimming analyses reveal a radiative and reticulate evolutionary history of the temperate bamboos

C Guo, PF Ma, GQ Yang, XY Ye, Y Guo… - Systematic …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Rapid evolutionary radiations are among the most challenging phylogenetic problems,
wherein different types of data (eg, morphology and molecular) or genetic markers (eg …

Phylogenomic relationships and evolution of polyploid Salix species revealed by RAD sequencing data

ND Wagner, L He, E Hörandl - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Polyploidy is common in the genus Salix. However, little is known about the origin,
parentage and genomic composition of polyploid species because of a lack of suitable …

Hundreds of nuclear and plastid loci yield novel insights into orchid relationships

OA Pérez‐Escobar, S Dodsworth… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
PREMISE The inference of evolutionary relationships in the species‐rich family Orchidaceae
has hitherto relied heavily on plastid DNA sequences and limited taxon sampling. Previous …

The radiation of Darwin's giant daisies in the Galápagos Islands

M Fernández-Mazuecos, P Vargas, RA McCauley… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Evolutionary radiations on oceanic islands have fascinated biologists since Darwin's
exploration of the Galápagos archipelago [1, 2]. Island radiations can provide key insights …

Down, then up: non-parallel genome size changes and a descending chromosome series in a recent radiation of the Australian allotetraploid plant species, Nicotiana …

MW Chase, R Samuel, AR Leitch, MS Guignard… - Annals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims The extent to which genome size and chromosome numbers
evolve in concert is little understood, particularly after polyploidy (whole-genome …

Recurrent allopolyploidizations diversify ecophysiological traits in marsh orchids (Dactylorhiza majalis sl)

TM Wolfe, F Balao, E Trucchi, G Bachmann… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Whole‐genome duplication has shaped the evolution of angiosperms and other organisms,
and is important for many crops. Structural reorganization of chromosomes and repatterning …

Novel approaches for species concepts and delimitation in polyploids and hybrids

E Hörandl - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hybridization and polyploidization are important processes for plant evolution. However,
classification of hybrid or polyploid species has been notoriously difficult because of the …

Allele sorting as a novel approach to resolving the origin of allotetraploids using Hyb-Seq data: a case study of the Balkan mountain endemic Cardamine …

M Šlenker, A Kantor, K Marhold, R Schmickl… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Mountains of the Balkan Peninsula are significant biodiversity hotspots with great species
richness and a large proportion of narrow endemics. Processes that have driven the …