The evolutionary significance of polyploidy

Y Van de Peer, E Mizrachi, K Marchal - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Polyploidy, or the duplication of entire genomes, has been observed in prokaryotic and
eukaryotic organisms, and in somatic and germ cells. The consequences of polyploidization …

Green giant—a tiny chloroplast genome with mighty power to produce high‐value proteins: history and phylogeny

H Daniell, S Jin, XG Zhu… - Plant biotechnology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Free‐living cyanobacteria were entrapped by eukaryotic cells~ 2 billion years ago, ultimately
giving rise to chloroplasts. After a century of debate, the presence of chloroplast DNA was …

Plastid phylogenomic insights into relationships of all flowering plant families

HT Li, Y Luo, L Gan, PF Ma, LM Gao, JB Yang, J Cai… - BMC biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Flowering plants (angiosperms) are dominant components of global terrestrial
ecosystems, but phylogenetic relationships at the familial level and above remain only …

The timescale of early land plant evolution

JL Morris, MN Puttick, JW Clark… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Establishing the timescale of early land plant evolution is essential for testing hypotheses on
the coevolution of land plants and Earth's System. The sparseness of early land plant …

A community‐derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns

PPG I - Journal of systematics and evolution, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogeny has long informed pteridophyte classification. As our ability to infer evolutionary
trees has improved, classifications aimed at recognizing natural groups have become …

An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group… - Botanical journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) classification of the orders and
families of angiosperms is presented. Several new orders are recognized: Boraginales …

A universal probe set for targeted sequencing of 353 nuclear genes from any flowering plant designed using k-medoids clustering

MG Johnson, L Pokorny, S Dodsworth… - Systematic …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Sequencing of target-enriched libraries is an efficient and cost-effective method for obtaining
DNA sequence data from hundreds of nuclear loci for phylogeny reconstruction. Much of the …

The interrelationships of land plants and the nature of the ancestral embryophyte

MN Puttick, JL Morris, TA Williams, CJ Cox, D Edwards… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
The evolutionary emergence of land plant body plans transformed the planet. However, our
understanding of this formative episode is mired in the uncertainty associated with the …

ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

S Kalyaanamoorthy, BQ Minh, TKF Wong… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Model-based molecular phylogenetics plays an important role in comparisons of
genomic data, and model selection is a key step in all such analyses. We present …

Phylotranscriptomic analysis of the origin and early diversification of land plants

NJ Wickett, S Mirarab, N Nguyen… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Reconstructing the origin and evolution of land plants and their algal relatives is a
fundamental problem in plant phylogenetics, and is essential for understanding how critical …