Evolutionary genomics of oceanic island radiations

J Cerca, DD Cotoras, VC Bieker, R De-Kayne… - Trends in ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
A recurring feature of oceanic archipelagos is the presence of adaptive radiations that
generate endemic, species-rich clades that can offer outstanding insight into the links …

Why Do Some Lineages Radiate While Others Do Not? Perspectives for Future Research on Adaptive Radiations

R De-Kayne, R Schley, JMI Barth… - Cold Spring …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Understanding the processes that drive phenotypic diversification and underpin speciation
is key to elucidating how biodiversity has evolved. Although these processes have been …

Characterization and acceleration of genome shuffling and ploidy reduction in synthetic allopolyploids by genome sequencing and editing

X Zhang, S Zhang, Z Liu, W Zhao, X Zhang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Polyploidy and the subsequent ploidy reduction and genome shuffling are the major driving
forces of genome evolution. Here, we revealed short-term allopolyploid genome evolution …

Target capture and genome skimming for plant diversity studies

FF Pezzini, G Ferrari, LL Forrest, ML Hart… - Applications in Plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent technological advances in long‐read high‐throughput sequencing and assembly
methods have facilitated the generation of annotated chromosome‐scale whole‐genome …

The emerging importance of cross‐ploidy hybridisation and introgression

MR Brown, RJ Abbott, AD Twyford - Molecular Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Natural hybridisation is now recognised as pervasive in its occurrence across the Tree of
Life. Resurgent interest in natural hybridisation fuelled by developments in genomics has …

The ancestral karyotype of the Heliantheae Alliance, herbicide resistance, and human allergens: Insights from the genomes of common and giant ragweed

M Laforest, SL Martin, K Bisaillon, B Soufiane… - The Plant …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ambrosia artemisiifolia and Ambrosia trifida (Asteraceae) are important pest species and the
two greatest sources of aeroallergens globally. Here, we took advantage of a hybrid to …

The role of systematics for understanding ecosystem functions: Proceedings of the Zoologica Scripta Symposium, Oslo, Norway, 25 August 2022

L Bachmann, J Beermann, T Brey, HJ de Boer… - Zoologica …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract On 25 August 2022, the Zoologica Scripta‐An International Journal of Systematic
Zoology and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters arranged a symposium …

A roadmap of phylogenomic methods for studying polyploid plant genera

W Ning, HM Meudt, JA Tate - Applications in Plant Sciences, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenetic inference of polyploid species is the first step towards understanding their
patterns of diversification. In this paper, we review the challenges and limitations of inferring …

Guide to k-mer approaches for genomics across the tree of life

KM Jenike, L Campos-Domínguez, M Boddé… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The wide array of currently available genomes display a wonderful diversity in size,
composition and structure with many more to come thanks to several global biodiversity …

Phased chromosome-scale genome assembly of an asexual, allopolyploid root-knot nematode reveals complex subgenomic structure

MR Winter, AP Taranto, HZ Yimer, A Coomer Blundell… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
We present the chromosome-scale genome assembly of the allopolyploid root-knot
nematode Meloidogyne javanica. We show that the M. javanica genome is predominantly …