Polyploid phylogenetics

CJ Rothfels - New Phytologist, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Polyploidy is a dominant feature of extant plant diversity. However, major research
questions, including whether polyploidy is important to long‐term evolution or is just …

Chloranthus genome provides insights into the early diversification of angiosperms

X Guo, D Fang, SK Sahu, S Yang, X Guang… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Chloranthales remain the last major mesangiosperm lineage without a nuclear genome
assembly. We therefore assemble a high-quality chromosome-level genome of Chloranthus …

The flickering connectivity system of the north Andean páramos

SGA Flantua, A O'Dea, RE Onstein… - Journal of …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim To quantify the effect of Pleistocene climate fluctuations on habitat connectivity across
páramos in the Northern Andes. Location Northern Andes. Methods The unique páramos …

Disentangling sources of gene tree discordance in phylogenomic data sets: testing ancient hybridizations in Amaranthaceae sl

DF Morales-Briones, G Kadereit, DT Tefarikis… - Systematic …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Gene tree discordance in large genomic data sets can be caused by evolutionary processes
such as incomplete lineage sorting and hybridization, as well as model violation, and errors …

Phylogenomic analyses reveal a deep history of hybridization and polyploidy in the Neotropical genus Lachemilla (Rosaceae)

DF Morales‐Briones, A Liston, DC Tank - New Phytologist, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Hybridization, incomplete lineage sorting, and phylogenetic error produce similar
incongruence patterns, representing a great challenge for phylogenetic reconstruction …

Plant speciation in the Quaternary

JW Kadereit, RJ Abbott - Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2021‏ - Taylor & Francis
Background There are conflicting views between palaeobotanists and plant systematists/
evolutionary biologists regarding the occurrence of plant speciation in the Quaternary …

Hundreds of nuclear and plastid loci yield novel insights into orchid relationships

OA Pérez‐Escobar, S Dodsworth… - American Journal of …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
PREMISE The inference of evolutionary relationships in the species‐rich family Orchidaceae
has hitherto relied heavily on plastid DNA sequences and limited taxon sampling. Previous …

Analysis of Paralogs in Target Enrichment Data Pinpoints Multiple Ancient Polyploidy Events in Alchemilla sl (Rosaceae)

DF Morales-Briones, B Gehrke, CH Huang… - Systematic …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Target enrichment is becoming increasingly popular for phylogenomic studies. Although
baits for enrichment are typically designed to target single-copy genes, paralogs are often …

Phylogenomic analyses based on genome-skimming data reveal cyto-nuclear discordance in the evolutionary history of Cotoneaster (Rosaceae)

KK Meng, SF Chen, KW Xu, RC Zhou, MW Li… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
As a consequence of hybridization, polyploidization, and apomixis, the genus Cotoneaster
(Rosaceae) represents one of the most complicated and controversial lineages in …

Island woodiness underpins accelerated disparification in plant radiations

NM Nürk, GW Atchison, CE Hughes - New Phytologist, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The evolution of secondary (insular) woodiness and the rapid disparification of plant growth
forms associated with island radiations show intriguing parallels between oceanic islands …