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 …

An Updated Infrageneric Classification of the North American Oaks (Quercus Subgenus Quercus): Review of the Contribution of Phylogenomic Data to Biogeography …

PS Manos, AL Hipp - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
The oak flora of North America north of Mexico is both phylogenetically diverse and species-
rich, including 92 species placed in five sections of subgenus Quercus, the oak clade …

Genomic and functional approaches reveal a case of adaptive introgression from Populus balsamifera (balsam poplar) in Ptrichocarpa (black cottonwood)

A Suarez‐Gonzalez, CA Hefer, C Christe… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Natural hybrid zones in forest trees provide systems to study the transfer of adaptive genetic
variation by introgression. Previous landscape genomic studies in Populus trichocarpa, a …

Genome-wide identification of the mango CONSTANS (CO) family and functional analysis of two MiCOL9 genes in transgenic Arabidopsis

Y Liu, C Luo, R Liang, M Lan, H Yu, Y Guo… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
CONSTANS/CONSTANS-like (CO/COL) transcription factors play a vital role in the
photoperiodic flowering pathway. However, the biological functions of COL genes in mango …

Use of genomic resources to assess adaptive divergence and introgression in oaks

D Lazic, AL Hipp, JE Carlson, O Gailing - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
Adaptive divergence is widely accepted as a contributor to speciation and the maintenance
of species integrity. However, the mechanisms leading to reproductive isolation, the genes …

A multivariate morphometric analysis of diagnostic traits in southern Italy and Sicily pubescent oaks

R Di Pietro, AL Conte, P Di Marzio, L Gianguzzi… - Folia Geobotanica, 2020 - Springer
Species identification within the species complex of Q. pubescens is a well-known
taxonomic challenge among European botanists. Some of the specific pubescent oak …

Genomic Identity of White Oak Species in an Eastern North American Syngameon1

AL Hipp, AT Whittemore, M Garner, M Hahn… - Annals of the Missouri …, 2019 - BioOne
Abstract The eastern North American white oaks, a complex of approximately 16 potentially
interbreeding species, have become a classic model for studying the genetic nature of …

Environment‐dependent introgression from Quercus dentata to a coastal ecotype of Quercus mongolica var. crispula in northern Japan

T Nagamitsu, K Uchiyama, A Izuno, H Shimizu… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Introgression from one species in a specific environment to another may facilitate
colonization of the environment by the recipient species. However, such environment …

Genetic differentiation across a steep and narrow environmental gradient: Quantitative genetic and genomic insights into Lake Superior populations of Quercus rubra

MJ Gómez Quijano, BL Gross, JR Etterson - Molecular ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Adaptive differentiation of traits and underlying loci can occur at a small geographical scale
if natural selection is stronger than countervailing gene flow and drift. We investigated this …

Interspecific gene flow and maintenance of species integrity in oaks

O Gailing, AL Curtu - Annals of Forest Research, 2014 - afrjournal.org
Oak species show a wide variation in morphological and physiological characters, and
species boundaries between closely related species are often not clear-cut. Still, despite …