Crop wild phylorelatives (CWPs): phylogenetic distance, cytogenetic compatibility and breeding system data enable estimation of crop wild relative gene pool …

J Viruel, MB Kantar, R Gargiulo… - Botanical Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Enabling food security requires access to a broad range of genetic resources to facilitate
crop breeding. This need is increased in a climate change scenario, which will require the …

Echoes of ancient introgression punctuate stable genomic lineages in the evolution of figs

EM Gardner, S Bruun-Lund… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Studies investigating the evolution of flowering plants have long focused on isolating
mechanisms such as pollinator specificity. Some recent studies have proposed a role for …

Evidence of Sundaland's subsidence requires revisiting its biogeography

L Husson, FC Boucher, AC Sarr… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
It is widely accepted that sea level changes intermittently inundated the Sunda Shelf
throughout the Pleistocene, separating Java, Sumatra and Borneo from the Malay Peninsula …

Large-scale phylogenetic analyses provide insights into unrecognized diversity and historical biogeography of Asian leaf-litter frogs, genus Leptolalax (Anura …

JM Chen, NA Poyarkov Jr, C Suwannapoom… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Southeast Asia and southern China (SEA-SC) harbor a highly diverse and endemic
flora and fauna that is under increasing threat. An understanding of the biogeographical …

Grow us our daily bread: A review of breadfruit cultivation in traditional and contemporary systems

NK Lincoln, D Ragone, NJC Zerega… - Horticultural …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Breadfruit species (Artocarpus altilis and A. altilis× A. mariannensis) have been an important
food and material resource for many Pacific Island societies for centuries, and have …

Phylogeny and Biogeography of Morus (Moraceae)

CX Yang, SY Liu, NJC Zerega, GW Stull, EM Gardner… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
The mulberry genus, Morus L.(Moraceae), has long been taxonomically difficult, and its
species circumscription has only been defined recently. This genus comprises ca. 16 …

Paralogs and Off-Target Sequences Improve Phylogenetic Resolution in a Densely Sampled Study of the Breadfruit Genus (Artocarpus, Moraceae)

EM Gardner, MG Johnson, JT Pereira… - Systematic …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present a 517-gene phylogenetic framework for the breadfruit genus Artocarpus (ca. 70
spp., Moraceae), making use of silica-dried leaves from recent fieldwork and herbarium …

Allele phasing has minimal impact on phylogenetic reconstruction from targeted nuclear gene sequences in a case study of Artocarpus

HR Kates, MG Johnson, EM Gardner… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the Study Untapped information about allele diversity within populations and
individuals (ie, heterozygosity) could improve phylogenetic resolution and accuracy. Many …

[HTML][HTML] An integrative taxonomic revision of slug-eating snakes (Squamata: Pareidae: Pareineae) reveals unprecedented diversity in Indochina

NA Poyarkov, T Van Nguyen, P Pawangkhanant… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Slug-eating snakes of the subfamily Pareinae are an insufficiently studied group of snakes
specialized in feeding on terrestrial mollusks. Currently Pareinae encompass three genera …

Himalayan orogeny and monsoon intensification explain species diversification in an endemic ginger (Hedychium: Zingiberaceae) from the Indo-Malayan Realm

A Ashokan, A Xavier, P Suksathan, M Ardiyani… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Indo-Malayan Realm is a biogeographic realm that extends from the Indian
Subcontinent to the islands of Southeast Asia (Malay Archipelago). Despite being …