Angiosperms at the edge: Extremity, diversity, and phylogeny

RA Folk, CM Siniscalchi, DE Soltis - Plant, Cell & Environment, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A hallmark of flowering plants is their ability to invade some of the most extreme and
dynamic habitats, including cold and dry biomes, to a far greater extent than other land …

Nuclear phylogenomics of angiosperms and insights into their relationships and evolution

G Zhang, H Ma - Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Angiosperms (flowering plants) are by far the most diverse land plant group with over
300,000 species. The sudden appearance of diverse angiosperms in the fossil record was …

Repeated upslope biome shifts in Saxifraga during late-Cenozoic climate cooling

T Carruthers, MS Moerland, J Ebersbach… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Mountains are among the most biodiverse places on Earth, and plant lineages that inhabit
them have some of the highest speciation rates ever recorded. Plant diversity within the …

Phylotranscriptomics of Theaceae: generic-level relationships, reticulation and whole-genome duplication

Q Zhang, L Zhao, RA Folk, JL Zhao… - Annals of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Theaceae, with three tribes, nine genera and more than 200
species, are of great economic and ecological importance. Recent phylogenetic analyses …

Plastid and nuclear phylogenomic incongruences and biogeographic implications of Magnolia sl (Magnoliaceae)

SS Dong, YL Wang, NH **a, Y Liu, M Liu… - … of Systematics and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Magnoliaceae, an assemblage of early diverged angiosperms, comprises two subfamilies,
speciose Magnolioideae with approximately 300 species in varying numbers of genera and …

Using target sequence capture to improve the phylogenetic resolution of a rapid radiation in New Zealand Veronica

AE Thomas, J Igea, HM Meudt… - American journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
PREMISE Recent, rapid radiations present a challenge for phylogenetic reconstruction. Fast
successive speciation events typically lead to low sequence divergence and poorly resolved …

Larger, unfiltered datasets are more effective at resolving phylogenetic conflict: Introns, exons, and UCEs resolve ambiguities in Golden-backed frogs (Anura: Ranidae …

KO Chan, CR Hutter, PL Wood Jr, LL Grismer… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2020 - Elsevier
Using FrogCap, a recently-developed sequence-capture protocol, we obtained> 12,000
highly informative exons, introns, and ultraconserved elements (UCEs), which we used to …

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 analysis of the hemp family (Cannabaceae) reveals deep cyto‐nuclear discordance and provides new insights into generic relationships

XG Fu, SY Liu, R van Velzen, GW Stull… - … of Systematics and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cannabaceae are a relatively small family of angiosperms, but they include several species
of huge economic and cultural significance: marijuana or hemp (Cannabis sativa) and hops …

Partitioned gene-tree analyses and gene-based topology testing help resolve incongruence in a phylogenomic study of host-specialist bees (Apidae: Eucerinae)

FV Freitas, MG Branstetter, T Griswold… - … biology and evolution, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Incongruence among phylogenetic results has become a common occurrence in analyses of
genome-scale data sets. Incongruence originates from uncertainty in underlying …