Researchers find that the rise of the Andes created conditions in the landscape that drove speciation in aquatic plants.
Tag - phylogenomics
Lorena Villanueva-Almanza
Niche conservatism characterizes the spread of Helianthemum in the Canary Islands
In nearly all cases, each species’ closest relatives occur in a similar niche on a different island
Erin Zimmerman
How a conifer spread between isolated mountain-tops: the demographic history of Podocarpus latifolius/milanjianus
Were there land-bridges in the past that enabled trees to travel from mountaintop to mountaintop?
Laura Skates
How is flower diversity produced? Insights from Asarum
The core Heterotropa group was divided into nine subclades, each of which had a narrow geographic distribution.
Liam Elliott
Diversification in Mediterranean firs occurred much earlier than expected
Mediterranean firs appeared millions of years earlier than was supposed, and likely through a single colonization event from Asia.
Where do all the Epipactis orchids come from?
Botanists use the orchid genus Epipactis as a model for speciation, but unravelling its family tree has been difficult.
Alex Assiry
Plastid genomes of Shoreeae
Phylogenetic relationships in the ecologically and economically important tribe Shoreeae present a long-standing problem in the systematics of Dipterocarpaceae. Heckenhauer et al. employ next-generation sequencing (NGS)...
Organellar phylogenomics of Sphagnum
Sphagnum (peatmoss) is rapidly developing as a model for ecological genomics research. Twenty or more species of Sphagnum often co-exist within peatlands and sort themselves relative to abiotic niche gradients...
botanyone
Plastid phylogenomics of the cool-season grass subfamily: Clarification of relationships among early-diverging tribes
Whole plastid genomes (plastomes) are being sequenced rapidly from across the green plant tree of life, and phylogenetic analyses of these are increasing resolution and support for relationships that were unresolved in...
AoBPLANTS
Where do gingers some from?
Next-generation sequencing used to generate complete plastid gene sets for the tropical angiosperm order Zingiberales.
AJ Cann