Plasmids are extrachromosomal genetic elements that reside in prokaryotes. The acquisition
of plasmids encoding beneficial traits can facilitate short-term survival in harsh …

Hybridization blurs species boundaries and leads to intertwined lineages resulting in
reticulate evolution. Polyploidy, the outcome of whole genome duplication (WGD), has more …

Motivation Major improvements in sequencing technologies and genome sequence
assembly have led to a huge increase in the number of available genome sequences. In …

Seagrasses are marine flowering plants that create critical coastal ecosystems and are
threatened by warming. Clonal expansion is generally the dominant strategy for meadow …

Flooding events are highly detrimental to most terrestrial plant species. However, there is an
impressive diversity of plant species that thrive in flood‐prone regions and represent a …

Whole-genome duplication (WGD) events are widespread in plants and animals, thus their
long-term evolutionary contribution has long been speculated, yet a specific contribution is …

Background: Seagrasses are ideal for studying plant adaptation to marine environments. A
previous study reported the transfer of lost chloroplast (cp) genes to the nuclear genome …