Phylogenomics and the flowering plant tree of life

C Guo, Y Luo, LM Gao, TS Yi, HT Li… - Journal of Integrative …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The advances accelerated by next‐generation sequencing and long‐read sequencing
technologies continue to provide an impetus for plant phylogenetic study. In the past …

Nuclear phylogenomics of angiosperms and insights into their relationships and evolution

G Zhang, H Ma - Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Angiosperms (flowering plants) are by far the most diverse land plant group with over
300,000 species. The sudden appearance of diverse angiosperms in the fossil record was …

Exploring Angiosperms353: An open, community toolkit for collaborative phylogenomic research on flowering plants

WJ Baker, S Dodsworth, F Forest, SW Graham… - 2021 - ttu-ir.tdl.org
The unveiling of the angiosperm (flowering plant) tree of life over the past three decades has
been one of the great success stories of modern plant biology. Flowering plants underpin …

Settling a family feud: A high‐level phylogenomic framework for the Gentianales based on 353 nuclear genes and partial plastomes

A Antonelli, JJ Clarkson, K Kainulainen… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Premise Comprising five families that vastly differ in species richness—ranging from
Gelsemiaceae with 13 species to the Rubiaceae with 13,775 species—members of the …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic insights into rapid speciation within the world's largest tree genus Syzygium

YW Low, S Rajaraman, CM Tomlin, JA Ahmad… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Species radiations, despite immense phenotypic variation, can be difficult to resolve
phylogenetically when genetic change poorly matches the rapidity of diversification …

A new Melastomataceae classification informed by molecular phylogenetics and morphology

DS Penneys, F Almeda, M Reginato… - … , evolution, and ecology …, 2022 - Springer
The Melastomataceae, with ca. 177 genera and 5858 species, are among the ten most
species-rich families of angiosperms. Previous molecular phylogenetic analyses have …

Linking mode of seed dispersal and climatic niche evolution in flowering plants

T Vasconcelos, JD Boyko… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Due to the sessile nature of flowering plants, movements to new geographical areas
occur mainly during seed dispersal. Frugivores tend to be efficient dispersers because …

Target sequence data shed new light on the infrafamilial classification of Araceae

AL Haigh, M Gibernau, O Maurin… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Premise Recent phylogenetic studies of the Araceae have confirmed the position of the
duckweeds nested within the aroids, and the monophyly of a clade containing all the …

[HTML][HTML] Target capture data resolve recalcitrant relationships in the coffee family (Rubioideae, Rubiaceae)

O Thureborn, SG Razafimandimbison… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Subfamily Rubioideae is the largest of the main lineages in the coffee family (Rubiaceae),
with over 8,000 species and 29 tribes. Phylogenetic relationships among tribes and other …

Drift in the tropics: Phylogenetics and biogeographical patterns in Combretaceae

O Maurin, A Anest, F Forest, I Turner… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The aim of this study was to further advance our understanding of the species‐rich, and
ecologically important angiosperm family Combretaceae to provide new insights into their …