Despite intensive research, little is known about the origin of the angiosperms and their rise
to ecological dominance during the Early Cretaceous. Based on whole-genome analyses of …

Gene duplication is a prevalent phenomenon across the tree of life. The processes that lead
to the retention of duplicated genes are not well understood. Functional genomics …

Given the prevalence of duplicate genes and genomes in plant species, the study of their
evolutionary dynamics has been a focus of study in plant evolutionary genetics over the past …

Gene duplication plays important roles in organismal evolution, because duplicate genes
provide raw materials for the evolution of mechanisms controlling physiological and/or …

Even before the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, the perception of evolutionary
change has been a tree-like pattern of diversification-with divergent branches spreading …

Although an increasing number of phylogenetic data sets are incomplete, the effect of
ambiguous data on phylogenetic accuracy is not well understood. We use 4-taxon …

Background The MYB superfamily constitutes the most abundant group of transcription
factors described in plants. Members control processes such as epidermal cell …

Genes are perpetually added to and deleted from genomes during evolution. Thus, it is
important to understand how new genes are formed and how they evolve to be critical …

Whole genome duplications (WGDs) followed by diploidization, which includes gene loss,
have been an important recurrent process in the evolution of higher eukaryotes. Gene …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding RNAs that play essential roles in plant growth,
development, and stress response. We conducted a genome-wide survey of maize miRNA …