Transposable elements (TEs) are drivers of evolution resulting in episodic surges of genetic
innovation and genomic reorganization (Oliver KR, Greene WK. 2009. TEs: powerful …

Both ancient and recent polyploidy, together with post-polyploidization loss of many
duplicated gene copies, complicates angiosperm comparative genomics. To explore an …

Long-distance insular dispersal is associated with divergence and speciation because of
founder effects and strong genetic drift. The cotton tribe (Gossypieae) has experienced …

We employed phylogenomic methods to study molecular evolutionary processes and
phylogeny in the geographically widely dispersed New World diploid cottons (Gossypium …

The New World allopolyploid (AD-genome) cottons (Gossypium) originated through
hybridization of ancestral diploid species that presently have allopatric ranges in Africa-Asia …

Transposable elements contribute significantly to plant genome evolution in myriad ways,
ranging from local insertional mutations to global effects exerted on genome size through …

Upon assembling the first Gossypium herbaceum (A1) genome and substantially improving
the existing Gossypium arboreum (A2) and Gossypium hirsutum ((AD) 1) genomes, we …

The DNA content of eukaryotic nuclei (C-value) varies∼ 200,000-fold, but there is only a∼
20-fold variation in the number of protein-coding genes. Hence, most C-value variation is …

Genome sizes vary by several orders of magnitude, driven by mechanisms such as
illegitimate recombination and transposable element proliferation. Prior analysis of the CesA …

Abstract The Mexican cotton Gossypium gossypioides is a perplexing entity, with conflicting
morphological, cytogenetic, and molecular evidence of its phylogenetic affinity to other …