Sustainable goals for contemporary world seek viable solutions for interconnected
challenges, particularly in the fields of food and energy security and climate change. We …

Single and low copy nuclear genes offer a larger number of, and more rapidly evolving,
characters than the chloroplast and nuclear ribosomal gene sequences that have dominated …

Motivation: Restriction-site–associated genomic markers are a powerful tool for investigating
evolutionary questions at the population level, but are limited in their utility at deeper …

There is a lack of consensus on how next-generation sequence (NGS) data should be
considered for phylogenetic and phylogeographic estimates, with some studies excluding …

Determining phylogenetic relationships among very closely related species has remained a
challenge for evolutionary biologists due to interlocus phylogenetic discordance and the …

Tea is one of the most popular beverages across the world and is made exclusively from
cultivars of Camellia sinensis. Many wild relatives of the genus Camellia that are closely …

Zebrafish (Danio rerio) is an important model for vertebrate development, genomics,
physiology, behavior, toxicology, and disease. Additionally, work on numerous Danio …

Ceratocystis sensu stricto is a genus of closely related fungi that are mostly plant pathogens.
Morphological variation between species in this genus is limited, and species delineation is …

Abstract Background Sesame (Sesamum indicum L., 2n= 26) is an important oilseed crop
with an estimated genome size of 369 Mb. The genetic basis, including the number and …

Extreme and remote environments provide useful settings to test ideas about the ecological
and evolutionary drivers of biological diversity. In the sub‐A ntarctic, isolation by geographic …