A time-calibrated road map of Brassicaceae species radiation and evolutionary history

N Hohmann, EM Wolf, MA Lysak, MA Koch - The Plant Cell, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The Brassicaceae include several major crop plants and numerous important model species
in comparative evolutionary research such as Arabidopsis, Brassica, Boechera …

How apomictic taxa are treated in current taxonomy: a review

Ľ Majeský, F Krahulec, RJ Vašut - Taxon, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Gametophytic apomixis (asexual seed formation without syngamy of female and male
gametes) is a highly interesting mechanism for researchers in plant biotechnology, genetics …

Deep reticulation and incomplete lineage sorting obscure the diploid phylogeny of rain-lilies and allies (Amaryllidaceae tribe Hippeastreae)

N García, RA Folk, AW Meerow, S Chamala… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2017 - Elsevier
Hybridization is a frequent and important force in plant evolution. Next-generation
sequencing (NGS) methods offer new possibilities for clade resolution and ambitious …

Correlations of polyploidy and apomixis with elevation and associated environmental gradients in an alpine plant

CCF Schinkel, B Kirchheimer, AS Dellinger, S Klatt… - AoB Plants, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Apomictic plants expand their geographical distributions more to higher elevations
compared to their sexual progenitors. It was so far unclear whether this tendency is related …

[HTML][HTML] Explosive radiation in high Andean Hypericum—rates of diversification among New World lineages

NM Nürk, C Scheriau, S Madriñán - Frontiers in genetics, 2013 - frontiersin.org
The páramos, high-elevation Andean grasslands ranging from ca. 2800 m to the snow line,
harbor one of the fastest evolving biomes worldwide since their appearance in the northern …

Hybrid apomicts trapped in the ecological niches of their sexual ancestors

M Mau, JT Lovell, JM Corral, C Kiefer… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Asexual reproduction is expected to reduce the adaptive potential to novel or changing
environmental conditions, restricting or altering the ecological niche of asexual lineages …

A Conserved Apomixis-Specific Polymorphism Is Correlated with Exclusive Exonuclease Expression in Premeiotic Ovules of Apomictic Boechera Species

JM Corral, H Vogel, OM Aliyu, G Hensel, T Thiel… - Plant …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Apomixis (asexual seed production) is characterized by meiotically unreduced egg cell
production (apomeiosis) followed by its parthenogenetic development into offspring that are …

On the origin and evolution of apomixis in Boechera

JT Lovell, OM Aliyu, M Mau, ME Schranz, M Koch… - Plant reproduction, 2013 - Springer
The genetic mechanisms causing seed development by gametophytic apomixis in plants are
predominantly unknown. As apomixis is consistently associated with hybridity and …

Ecological differentiation facilitates fine‐scale coexistence of sexual and asexual Boechera

CA Rushworth, MD Windham, RA Keith… - American journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the Study Ecological differentiation (ED) between sexual and asexual organisms
may permit the maintenance of reproductive polymorphism. Several studies of …

Evolution of cryptic gene pools in Hypericum perforatum: the influence of reproductive system and gene flow

MA Koch, C Scheriau, A Betzin, N Hohmann… - Annals of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Hypericum perforatum (St. John's wort) is a widespread
Eurasian perennial plant species with remarkable variation in its morphology, ploidy and …