Oaks: an evolutionary success story

A Kremer, AL Hipp - New Phytologist, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The genus Quercus is among the most widespread and species‐rich tree genera in the
northern hemisphere. The extraordinary species diversity in America and Asia together with …

Spatiotemporal maintenance of flora in the Himalaya biodiversity hotspot: current knowledge and future perspectives

MC Wambulwa, R Milne, ZY Wu, RA Spicer… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mountain ecosystems support a significant one‐third of all terrestrial biodiversity, but our
understanding of the spatiotemporal maintenance of this high biodiversity remains poor, or …

Out of the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains: phylogenomics, biogeography and diversification of Polygonatum Mill.(Asparagaceae) in the Northern Hemisphere

M Xia, Y Liu, J Liu, D Chen, Y Shi, Z Chen… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Clarifying the process of formation of diversity hotspots and the biogeographic connection
between regions is critical in understanding the impact of environmental changes on …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating climate-induced 'Nowhere to go'range shifts of the Himalayan Incarvillea Juss. using multi-model median ensemble species distribution models

SK Rana, HK Rana, D Luo, H Sun - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Global climate change threatens the range and resilience of species in the major
biodiversity, particularly those in mountain regions. As the climatic conditions at high …

Integrated phylogenomic analyses unveil reticulate evolution in Parthenocissus (Vitaceae), highlighting speciation dynamics in the Himalayan–Hengduan Mountains

J Yu, Y Niu, Y You, CJ Cox, RL Barrett… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hybridization caused by frequent environmental changes can lead both to species
diversification (speciation) and to speciation reversal (despeciation), but the latter has rarely …

Past climate cooling and orogenesis of the Hengduan Mountains have influenced the evolution of Impatiens sect. Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) in the Northern …

F Qin, T Xue, X Zhang, X Yang, J Yu, SR Gadagkar… - BMC Plant …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background Impatiens sect. Impatiens is distributed across the Northern
Hemisphere and has diversified considerably, particularly within the Hengduan Mountains …

Contrasted patterns of local adaptation to climate change across the range of an evergreen oak, Quercus aquifolioides

FK Du, T Wang, Y Wang, S Ueno… - Evolutionary …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐lived tree species are genetically differentiated and locally adapted with respect to
fitness‐related traits, but the genetic basis of local adaptation remains largely unresolved …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenetic relationships in Chinese oaks (Fagaceae, Quercus): Evidence from plastid genome using low-coverage whole genome sequencing

Y Yang, T Zhou, Z Qian, G Zhao - Genomics, 2021 - Elsevier
China is a second center of oak diversity but with less intensively systematic studies. Here,
with 49 species representing all four sections in China, we firstly gave insight into the …

Land bridges in the Pleistocene contributed to flora assembly on the continental islands of South China: Insights from the evolutionary history of Quercus championii

XL Jiang, EM Gardner, HH Meng, M Deng… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The South China Mainland (SCM) and its adjacent continental islands are a global
biodiversity hotspot. However, how and when plants dispersed between SCM and …

Linked selection shapes the landscape of genomic variation in three oak species

YY Liang, Y Shi, S Yuan, BF Zhou, XY Chen… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Natural selection shapes genome‐wide patterns of diversity within species and divergence
between species. However, quantifying the efficacy of selection and elucidating the relative …