Nightmare or delight: taxonomic circumscription meets reticulate evolution in the phylogenomic era

ZT **, RGJ Hodel, DK Ma, H Wang, GN Liu… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Phylogenetic studies in the phylogenomics era have demonstrated that reticulate evolution
greatly impedes the accuracy of phylogenetic inference, and consequently can obscure …

Advancing Pyrus phylogeny: Deep genome skimming‐based inference coupled with paralogy analysis yields a robust phylogenetic backbone and an updated …

ZT **, DK Ma, GN Liu, RGJ Hodel, Y Jiang, BJ Ge… - Taxon, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The lack of a robust phylogenetic backbone has posed significant challenges to proposing
an infrageneric taxonomic classification of the pear genus, Pyrus, a widely distributed …

 Refining the phylogeny and taxonomy of the apple tribe Maleae (Rosaceae): insights from phylogenomic analyses of 563 plastomes and a taxonomic synopsis of …

H Wang, XY Li, Y Jiang, ZT **, DK Ma, B Liu… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract This study addresses the longstanding absence of a comprehensive phylogenetic
backbone for the apple tribe Maleae, a deficiency attributed to limited taxon and marker …

Unraveling the Web of Life: Incomplete lineage sorting and hybridization as primary mechanisms over polyploidization in the evolutionary dynamics of pear species

ZT **, XH Lin, DK Ma, RGJ Hodel, C Ren, L Zhao… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
In contrast to the traditional Tree of Life (ToL) paradigm, the Web of Life (WoL) model
provides a more nuanced and precise depiction of organismal phylogeny, particularly …

[HTML][HTML] Conserved Plastid Genomes of Pourthiaea Trees: Comparative Analyses and Phylogenetic Relationship

T Ren, C Peng, Y Lu, Y Jia, B Li - Forests, 2024 - mdpi.com
The genus Pourthiaea Decne., a deciduous woody group with high ornamental value,
belongs to the family Rosaceae. Here, we reported newly sequenced plastid genome …

[PDF][PDF] Plastome-based subgenus-level phylogenetic backbone of hawthorns: insights into the maternal position and taxonomic synopsis of Crataegus shandongensis …

XH Lin, SY **e, GN Liu, DK Ma, FR Zou… - …, 2025 - phytokeys.pensoft.net
The recent recognition of the five-subgenera classification within Crataegus has prompted
discussion about the maternal phylogenetic relationships among these subgenera, with …

[HTML][HTML]  Rubustingzhouensis (Rosaceae), a new species from Fujian, China

M Chen, GC Lin, T Wang, YX Zhuang, YX Yao… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract Rubustingzhouensis C. An & GC Lin, a newly-defined species within the family
Rosaceae from Fujian Province, China, is formally described and illustrated here. R …

[HTML][HTML]  Resurrection of Sorbustapashana (Rosaceae) based on molecular and morphological evidence

X Chen, WX Hou, JL Hu, MD Dong, BM Tan - PhytoKeys, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract Sorbustapashana (Rosaceae) from Taibai Shan, Qinling, China, has been treated
as a synonym of S. tianschanica. Both species belong to a distinctive group characterized by …

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