A transcriptome-based study on the phylogeny and evolution of the taxonomically controversial subfamily Apioideae (Apiaceae)

J Wen, Y Yu, DF Xie, C Peng, Q Liu, SD Zhou… - Annals of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background and Aims A long-standing controversy in the subfamily Apioideae concerns
relationships among the major lineages, which has prevented a comprehensive study of …

Detecting destabilizing species in the phylogenetic backbone of Potentilla (Rosaceae) using low-copy nuclear markers

NL Persson, I Toresen, HL Andersen… - AoB Plants, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The genus Potentilla (Rosaceae) has been subjected to several phylogenetic
studies, but resolving its evolutionary history has proven challenging. Previous analyses …

[HTML][HTML] Decoding and analysis of organelle genomes of Indian tea (Camellia assamica) for phylogenetic confirmation

HC Rawal, PM Kumar, B Bera, NK Singh, TK Mondal - Genomics, 2020 - Elsevier
The NCBI database has> 15 chloroplast (cp) genome sequences available for different
Camellia species but none for C. assamica. There is no report of any mitochondrial (mt) …

Pleistocene range disruption and postglacial expansion with secondary contacts explain the genetic and cytotype structure in the western Balkan endemic Alyssum …

J Zozomová-Lihová, A Melichárková, M Svitok… - Plant systematics and …, 2020 - Springer
The western Balkans represents an area of significant topographic and environmental
heterogeneity, harbouring high species and intraspecific diversity. Similar genetic and …

Complex patterns of reticulate evolution in opportunistic weeds (Potentilla L., Rosaceae), as revealed by low-copy nuclear markers

NL Persson, T Eriksson, JEE Smedmark - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Most cinquefoils (Potentilla L., Rosaceae) are polyploids, ranging from
tetraploid (4 x) to dodecaploid (12 x), diploids being a rare exception. Previous studies …

Disentangling Reticulate Evolution of North Temperate Haplostemonous Ludwigia (Onagraceae) 1, 2

SH Liu, HA Yang, Y Kono, PC Hoch, JC Barber… - Annals of the Missouri …, 2020 - BioOne
While it is known that whole genome duplication (WGD) and reticulate evolution play
important roles in plant evolution, the origins and evolutionary histories of most polyploid …

Different filtering strategies of genotyping‐by‐sequencing data provide complementary resolutions of species boundaries and relationships in a clade of sexually …

S Cozzolino, G Scopece, L Roma… - Journal of Systematics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ongoing hybridization and retained ancestral polymorphism in rapidly radiating lineages
could mask recent cladogenetic events. This presents a challenge for the application of …

Species determination and phylogenetic relationships of the genus Betula inferred from multiple chloroplast and nuclear regions reveal the high methyl salicylate …

K Singewar, CR Moschner, E Hartung, M Fladung - Trees, 2020 - Springer
Key message The investigation provides initial knowledge on the distribution and evolution
of the high and low methyl salicylate-producing trait in the Betula genus. Mislabelled birch …

The low copy nuclear region, RPB2 as a novel DNA barcode region for species identification in the rattan genus Calamus (Arecaceae)

A Kurian, SA Dev, VB Sreekumar… - … and Molecular Biology of …, 2020 - Springer
Taxonomic complexities, like environmental plasticity and homoplasy, make precise
identification challenging in Calamus, the genus of spiny climbing palms of the subfamily …

Demographic history and adaptive synonymous and nonsynonymous variants of nuclear genes in Rhododendron oldhamii (Ericaceae)

YC Hsieh, CT Chang, JD Chung, SY Hwang - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Demographic events are important in shaping the population genetic structure and exon
variation can play roles in adaptive divergence. Twelve nuclear genes were used to …