The rapid expansion of next-generation sequencing (NGS) has generated a powerful array
of approaches to address fundamental questions in biology. Several genome-partitioning …

Relationships among the genera of the small, woody family Styracaceae and among
families of the large, diverse order Ericales have resisted complete resolution with …

Qat (Catha edulis, Celastraceae) is a woody evergreen species with great economic and
cultural importance. It is cultivated for its stimulant alkaloids cathine and cathinone in East …

Combining high-throughput sequencing data with amplicon sequences allows the
reconstruction of robust phylogenies based on comprehensive sampling of characters and …

Premise of the Study Targeted sequence capture can be used to efficiently gather sequence
data for large numbers of loci, such as single‐copy nuclear loci. Most published studies in …

Polyploidy has played a pivotal and recurring role in angiosperm evolution. Allotetraploids
arise from hybridization between species and possess duplicated gene copies (homeologs) …

Premise of the Study Our current understanding of flowering plant phylogeny provides an
excellent framework for exploring various aspects of character evolution through …

Crop wild relatives (CWR) can provide important resources for the genetic improvement of
cultivated species. Because crops are often related to many wild species and because …

Repetitive elements (REs) play major roles in genome organization, size, and evolution, but
are often underrepresented in genome assemblies. The recent genome assembly of the …

Advances in RNA sequencing technologies and de novo transcriptome assembly have
dramatically changed the scale at which research can be conducted within non-model …