The role of hybridization in plant speciation

PS Soltis, DE Soltis - Annual review of plant biology, 2009 - annualreviews.org
The importance of hybridization in plant speciation and evolution has been debated for
decades, with opposing views of hybridization as either a creative evolutionary force or …

Vascular plants of Greece: an annotated checklist

P Dimopoulos, T Raus, E Bergmeier, T Constantinidis… - 2013 - library.wur.nl
This book provides a reference for the plant diversity of Greece, bringing together a vast
body of information previously widely dispersed in various regional floras, floristic …

Molecular phylogeny of Atripliceae (Chenopodioideae, Chenopodiaceae): Implications for systematics, biogeography, flower and fruit evolution, and the origin of C4 …

G Kadereit, EV Mavrodiev, EH Zacharias… - American Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Atripliceae (Chenopodiaceae), including Atriplex (300 spp.) as the
largest genus of the family, are an ecologically important group of steppes and semideserts …

Rapid Chromosome Evolution in Recently Formed Polyploids in Tragopogon (Asteraceae)

KY Lim, DE Soltis, PS Soltis, J Tate, R Matyasek… - PloS one, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Background Polyploidy, frequently termed “whole genome duplication”, is a major force in
the evolution of many eukaryotes. Indeed, most angiosperm species have undergone at …

Evolution and Expression of Homeologous Loci in Tragopogon miscellus (Asteraceae), a Recent and Reciprocally Formed Allopolyploid

JA Tate, Z Ni, AC Scheen, J Koh, CA Gilbert… - Genetics, 2006 - academic.oup.com
On both recent and ancient time scales, polyploidy (genome doubling) has been a
significant evolutionary force in plants. Here, we examined multiple individuals from …

Hybrid speciation in angiosperms: parental divergence drives ploidy

O Paun, F Forest, MF Fay, MW Chase - New Phytologist, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Hybridization and polyploidy are now hypothesized to have regularly stimulated speciation
in angiosperms, but individual or combined involvement of these two processes seems to …

Resolving an ancient, rapid radiation in Saxifragales

S Jian, PS Soltis, MA Gitzendanner, MJ Moore… - Systematic …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Despite the prior use of∼ 9000 bp, deep-level relationships within the angiosperm clade,
Saxifragales remain enigmatic, due to an ancient, rapid radiation (89.5 to 110 Ma based on …

Gene loss and silencing in Tragopogon miscellus (Asteraceae): comparison of natural and synthetic allotetraploids

RJA Buggs, AN Doust, JA Tate, J Koh, K Soltis… - Heredity, 2009 - nature.com
Whole-genome duplication (polyploidisation) is a widespread mechanism of speciation in
plants. Over time, polyploid genomes tend towards a more diploid-like state, through …

Characterization of duplicate gene evolution in the recent natural allopolyploid Tragopogon miscellus by next‐generation sequencing and Sequenom iPLEX …

RJA Buggs, S Chamala, WEI Wu, LU Gao… - Molecular …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Tragopogon miscellus (Asteraceae) is an evolutionary model for the study of natural
allopolyploidy, but until now has been under‐resourced as a genetic model. Using 454 and …

Tissue‐specific silencing of homoeologs in natural populations of the recent allopolyploid Tragopogon mirus

RJA Buggs, NM Elliott, L Zhang, J Koh… - New …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Recent years have seen rapid advances in our knowledge of the transcriptomic
consequences of allopolyploidy, primarily through the study of polyploid crops and model …